Re: HEAD and max-age=0

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 19:28, Robert Collins wrote:
> This comment:
>
> * RFC 2068 seems to indicate there is no "conditional HEAD"
> * request. We cannot validate a cached object for a HEAD
> * request, nor can we return 304.
>
> has me stumped. max-age=foo should apply to HEAD AFAICT. We may not be
> able to perform IMS processing, but we should be able to validate and
> return the upstream object if needed.
>
> Can anyone point me with a little more precision than 'rfc 2068' at the
> logic the comment was drawn from?

Oh, I should note: CoAd is what put me onto this.

Rob