On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 07:51:19PM +0000, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:40:29PM -0800, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> > Quoting "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > >Okay, but why the next three lines? Why would Content-Encoding: gzip
> > > >*ever* be set on a 304?
> >
> > Because Content-* header fields in a 304 response describe
> > what the response entity would contain if it were a 200 response.
> > Therefore, the header field must be the same as it would be for
> > a 200. The body must be dropped by the HTTP filter.
>
> That seems at odds with what 304 states unless I'm missing something?
^^^^ RFC2616
