On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:15 PM, James Leigh <[email protected]> wrote: > Could this 308 (Permanent Redirect) give us a way to cache a probe URI's > definition document location? > > An issue people have with httpRange-14 is that 303 redirects can't be > cached. If we could agree to use a 308 response as a cache-able > alternative to 303, we could reduce server load and speed client URI > processing (by caching the result of a probe URI). > > Thoughts? > James
The HTTP bug where 303 response to a GET is uncachable has been a known mistake for a long time; it's been in the RFC 2616 errata list, and has been fixed in most drafts of HTTPbis. Clients should have seen the errata and fixed this eons ago. Jonathan
