Re: ISSUE VARY: Proposed wording
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Thu, 10 Jul 1997 19:39:10 +0200 (MET DST)
Jeffrey Mogul:
[...]
>How about
> The Vary field value indicates the set of request-header fields
> that fully determines, while the response is fresh, whether a cache
> may use the response to reply to a subsequent request without
> revalidation. For uncachable or stale responses, the Vary field
> value advises the user agent about the criteria that were used to
> select the representation. A Vary field value of ``*'' implies
> that a cache cannot determine from the request headers of a
> subsequent request whether this response is the appropriate
> representation.
>
>I know this is a little longer than the original, but I think
>it is probably less ambiguous.
This is a great improvement, I support it going in.
>-Jeff
Koen.