Re: Comments on Byte range draft
Balint Nagy Endre (bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu)
Tue, 14 Nov 1995 01:38:46 +0100 (MET)
Simon Spero writes (in reply to Lou Montulli):
>
> Lou- the 205 response is not part of http/1.0 as described, and this can
> lead to some caching confusion; if a 1.1 client is talking through a 1.0
> proxy to a 1.1 client, and a partial fetch is done, it's possible to the
> 1.0 proxy to keep a copy of the partial contents, yet not be aware that
> the contents are bogus- the next client to do a fetch could end up with
> partial data, yet not be aware of it.
As fas as I know, 1.0 proxies think that only 200 responses are cachable.
Are there bogus proxies caching responses with any or unknown response codes?
Andrew. (Endre Balint Nagy) <bne@bne.ind.eunet.hu>