Re: draft-holtman-http-safe-01.txt
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:08:32 +0100 (MET)
Patrick McManus:
>
>That's not how I read section 3:
>
>--
>3 The Safe response header
>
> This header is proposed as an addition to the HTTP/1.x suite.
>
> The Safe response header field indicates whether the corresponding
> request is safe in the sense of Section 9.1.1 (Safe Methods) of the
> HTTP/1.1 draft specification [1].
>--
>
>It speaks very specifically that the safe response header field talks
>about the corresponding (i.e. current) request.. I think making any
>assumptions about future request/response pairs requires clairvoyance
For the record, your interpretation is not what I meant to say when I wrote
the above definition of Safe. `the request is safe' means that it is always
safe.
>(and the Note further in section three claims that it can do this
>clairvoyance)
...and the note further in the section should have alerted you that you
were misreading the definition.
>-Patrick
Koen.