Changeset 505

Timestamp:

Mar 4, 2009, 7:46:34 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

mnot@…

Message:

correct must-revalidate response semantics

File:

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

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

@@ -993 +993 @@
             <iref item="Cache Directives" primary="true" subitem="must-revalidate" />
             <iref item="must-revalidate" primary="true" subitem="Cache Directive" /> must-revalidate <list>
-              <t>The must-revalidate response directive indicates that validation is required before
-                the response is used by a cache to satisfy any request.</t>
-              <t>When the present, caches &MUST-NOT; use a stored after it becomes stale to
-                respond to a subsequent request without first validating it with the origin server.</t>
+              <t>The must-revalidate response directive indicates that once it has become stale, the response &MUST-NOT; be 
+               used to satisfy subsequent requests without successful validation on the origin server.</t>
               <t>The must-revalidate directive is necessary to support reliable operation for
                 certain protocol features. In all circumstances an HTTP/1.1 cache &MUST; obey