On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 22:59, Bjorn Stabell wrote: > Dieter wrote: > > Please read the HTTP 1.1 spec... > > > > Caching requires either an "ETag" or "Last-Modified" header. > > For good reasons... > > That would explain why it never got "fixed", but that's not how I > understand the RFC: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
I reread the HTTP 1.1 spec and you are right. Section 13.4 allows any successful response to be cached unless prohibited by a cache-control directive, while it does not expect caching if there is neither a cache validator (ETag, Last-Modified) nor an expiration time. Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
