Changeset 520 for draft-ietf-httpbis

Timestamp:

Mar 4, 2009, 10:14:05 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

mnot@…

Message:

Only specify that Age is to be sent once.

File:

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

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

@@ -444 +444 @@
         </t>
         <t><cref>TODO: define method cacheability for GET, HEAD and POST in p2-semantics.</cref></t>
-        <t>All responses satisfied from cache include an appropriate Age header field; see
-            <xref target="header.age" />. <cref>DISCUSS: this currently includes successfully validated responses.</cref></t>
-        <t>Request methods that are unsafe (&safe-methods;) &MUST; be written through the cache to
+        <t>When a stored response is used to satisfy a request, caches &MUST; include a
+          single Age header field <xref target="header.age" /> in the response with a value equal to the stored response's
+          current_age; see <xref target="age.calculations" />. 
+                <cref>DISCUSS: this currently includes successfully validated responses.</cref></t>
+        <t>Requests with methods that are unsafe (&safe-methods;) &MUST; be written through the cache to
           the origin server; i.e., A cache must not reply to such a request before having forwarded the request and having received a
    corresponding response.</t>
@@ -541 +543 @@
             each of the caches along the path from the origin server, plus the amount of time it has
             been in transit along network paths.</t>
-          <t>When a stored response is used to satisfy a request, the cache &MUST; include a
-            single Age header field in the response with a value equal to the stored response's
-            current_age, calculated using the algorithm described in this section.</t>
           <t>The term "age_value" denotes the value of the Age header, in a form appropriate for
             arithmetic operations.</t>