Hi Juliusz Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > In RFC 2616 Section 14.44, it says > > The "*" value MUST NOT be generated by a proxy server; it may only > be generated by an origin server. > > Does anyone happen to know why that is?
I assume this is because a proxy either A) must know which fields had been of relevance for it to determine whether it is allowed to use the cached response or B) must revalidate anyway because the server used "*" in its response. In case A, the proxy just lists the fields in the Vary header. In case B the "*" has already been produced by the server and therefore the Proxy is unable to find out which of the cached responses would be the right one. As a consequence, it has to revalidate. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Polipo-users mailing list Polipo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/polipo-users
