Changeset 1314 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml

Timestamp:

29/06/11 01:27:43 (11 years ago)

Author:

mnot@…

Message:

Cache invalidation only happens on non-error responses; addresses #235

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

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

@@ -882 +882 @@
    caches can use them to keep their contents up-to-date.
 </t>
+
+Here, a non-error response is one with a 2xx or 3xx status code. 
+
 <t>
    A cache &MUST; invalidate the effective Request URI 
    (&effective-request-uri;) as well as the URI(s) in the Location
-   and Content-Location header fields (if present) when requests with
-   unsafe methods are received.
+   and Content-Location header fields (if present) when a non-error 
+   response to a request with an unsafe method is received.
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -896 +899 @@
 <t>
    A cache &SHOULD; invalidate the effective request URI 
-   (&effective-request-uri;) when passing through requests with methods
-   whose safety is unknown.
-</t>
-<t>
-   Here, "invalidate" means that the cache will either remove all stored
+   (&effective-request-uri;) when it receives a non-error response 
+   to a request with a method whose safety is unknown.
+</t>
+<t>
+   Here, a "non-error response" is one with a 2xx or 3xx status code.
+   "Invalidate" means that the cache will either remove all stored
    responses related to the effective request URI, or will mark these as
    "invalid" and in need of a mandatory validation before they can be returned
@@ -2723 +2727 @@
       "Proxies don't 'understand' methods"
     </t>
+    <t>
+            <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/235"/>:
+            "Cache Invalidation only happens upon successful responses"
+          </t>
   </list>
 </t>