Changeset 2100 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml

Timestamp:

Jan 7, 2013, 4:27:15 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

mnot@…

Message:

Clarify rules for 304 updates, motivate last point; addresses #406

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

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

@@ -877 +877 @@
    are updated by this new response and then update the stored response(s)
    with the new information provided in the <x:ref>304</x:ref> response.
+</t>
+<t>
+   The stored response to update is identified by using the first match (if
+   any) of:
    <list style="symbols">
     <t>
@@ -891 +895 @@
     </t>
     <t>
-     If the new response does not include any form of validator, there is
+     If the new response does not include any form of validator (such as in
+     the case where a client generates an If-Modified-Since request from a
+     source other than the Last-Modified response header field), and there is
      only one stored response, and that stored response also lacks a
      validator, then that stored response is selected.