Changeset 866 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml

Timestamp:

22/07/10 09:06:27 (12 years ago)

Author:

fielding@…

Message:

Addresses #109: Clarify entity / representation / variant terminology

Replaced entity with representation.

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

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

@@ -325 +325 @@
   <list>
     <t>A protocol element (e.g., an entity tag or a Last-Modified time) that is used to find
-      out whether a stored response is an equivalent copy of an entity.</t>
+      out whether a stored response has an equivalent copy of a representation.</t>
   </list>
 </t>
@@ -533 +533 @@
   target="header.expires" />) or the max-age response cache directive (<xref
   target="cache-response-directive" />). Generally, origin servers will assign future
-  explicit expiration times to responses in the belief that the entity is not likely to
+  explicit expiration times to responses in the belief that the representation is not likely to
   change in a semantically significant way before the expiration time is reached.
 </t>
@@ -945 +945 @@
 <t>
   For entity-header fields, both sender and recipient refer to either the client or the
-  server, depending on who sends and who receives the entity.
+  server, depending on who sends and who receives the message.
 </t>
 
@@ -1223 +1223 @@
       server for any reason, it &MUST; generate a 504 (Gateway Timeout) response.</t>
     <t>Servers &SHOULD; send the must-revalidate directive if and only if failure to
-      validate a request on the entity could result in incorrect operation, such as a
+      validate a request on the representation could result in incorrect operation, such as a
       silently unexecuted financial transaction.</t>
   </list>
@@ -1479 +1479 @@
   or transformation of a message that might not be reflected in the message. This
   information is typically used to warn about possible incorrectness introduced by caching
-  operations or transformations applied to the entity body of the message.
+  operations or transformations applied to the payload of the message.
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -1524 +1524 @@
       &MUST; be deleted by caches after validation. They can only be generated by a cache
       when validating a cached entry, and &MUST-NOT; be generated in any other situation.</t>
-    <t>2xx Warnings describe some aspect of the entity body or entity headers that is
-      not rectified by a validation (for example, a lossy compression of the entity bodies)
+    <t>2xx Warnings describe some aspect of the representation that is
+      not rectified by a validation (for example, a lossy compression of the representation)
       and &MUST-NOT; be deleted by caches after validation, unless a full response is
       returned, in which case they &MUST; be.</t>