Changeset 1113 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml

Timestamp:

10/02/11 05:55:58 (10 years ago)

Author:

mnot@…

Message:

Setting Expires in the past doesn't guarantee that caches will always validate.

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml (modified) (1 diff)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml

@@ -588 +588 @@
    If an origin server wishes to force a cache to validate every request, it
    can assign an explicit expiration time in the past to indicate that the
-   response is already stale.  Compliant caches will validate the cached response
-   before reusing it for subsequent requests.
+   response is already stale. Compliant caches will normally validate the 
+   cached response before reusing it for subsequent requests (see <xref
+   target="serving.stale.responses" />).
 </t>
 <t>