Changeset 2248 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.html

Timestamp:

May 8, 2013, 6:19:12 AM (6 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

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• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.html (modified) (2 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>