Changeset 2248 for draft-ietf-httpbis

Timestamp:

08/05/13 13:19:12 (10 years ago)

Author:

mnot@…

Message:

Remove misleading language about Vary and future requests, and account for case where some stored responses don't have Vary; see #471

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p6-cache.html (modified) (2 diffs)
• p6-cache.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

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

@@ -1084 +1084 @@
          if it is also absent there.
       </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.4">A <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.vary" class="smpl">Vary</a> header field-value of "*" always fails to match, and subsequent requests to that resource can only be properly interpreted
-         by the origin server.
+      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.4">A <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.vary" class="smpl">Vary</a> header field-value of "*" always fails to match.
       </p>
       <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.5">The stored response with matching selecting header fields is known as the selected response.</p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.6">If multiple selected responses are available, the most recent response (as determined by the <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" class="smpl">Date</a> header field) is used; see <a href="#constructing.responses.from.caches" title="Constructing Responses from Caches">Section&nbsp;4</a>.
+      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.6">If multiple selected responses are available (potentially including responses without a Vary header), the most recent response
+         (as determined by the <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" class="smpl">Date</a> header field) is used; see <a href="#constructing.responses.from.caches" title="Constructing Responses from Caches">Section&nbsp;4</a>.
       </p>
       <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.7">If no selected response is available, the cache cannot satisfy the presented request. Typically, it is forwarded to the origin
@@ -2011 +2011 @@
          </li>
          <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/464">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/464</a>&gt;: "placement of extension point considerations"
+         </li>
+         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/471">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/471</a>&gt;: "Vary and future requests"
          </li>
       </ul>

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

@@ -916 +916 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   A <x:ref>Vary</x:ref> header field-value of "*" always fails to match, and
-   subsequent requests to that resource can only be properly interpreted by the
-   origin server.
+   A <x:ref>Vary</x:ref> header field-value of "*" always fails to match.
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -925 +923 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   If multiple selected responses are available, the most recent response 
-   (as determined by the <x:ref>Date</x:ref> header field) is used; see <xref 
+   If multiple selected responses are available (potentially including
+   responses without a Vary header), the most recent response (as determined by
+   the <x:ref>Date</x:ref> header field) is used; see <xref
    target="constructing.responses.from.caches"/>.
 </t>
@@ -2652 +2651 @@
       "placement of extension point considerations"
     </t>
+    <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/471"/>:
+      "Vary and future requests"
+    </t>
   </list>
 </t>