Re: [squid-users] "Accept-Encoding" header

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:48:27 +0200

Alex Rousskov wrote:

> IIRC, Vary headers are not a part of HTTP/1.0 (RFC 1945). If my
> recollection is correct, while the server in question may be doing
> HTTP/1.1, Squid should not rely on Vary presence in general.

To be precise, HTTP/1.1 servers responding ht HTTP/1.0 requests using server
side content negotiation SHOULD mark the reply as uncacheable by setting
Expires: <current time> in case there is caches not knowing about Vary.

In HTTP/1.0 the caching properties of server side content negotiation is
unspecified.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Fri Jun 14 2002 - 10:48:51 MDT

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