Re: [mcmanus@appliedtheory.com: Re: Different web pages for different browser versions]

From: Dancer Vesperman <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:57:34 +1100

(My caps below. I just want to highlight a couple of words)

Robert Collins wrote:

> 13.6
> ==
> <!--StartFragment-->
> A server SHOULD use the Vary header field to inform a cache of what
> request-header fields were used to select among multiple
> representations of a cacheable response subject to server-driven
> negotiation. The set of header fields named by the Vary field value
> is known as the "selecting" request-headers.
>
> When the cache receives a subsequent request whose Request-URI
> specifies one or more cache entries including a Vary header field,
> the cache MUST NOT use such a cache entry to construct a response to
> the new request unless all of the selecting request-headers present
> in the new request match the corresponding STORED REQUEST-HEADERS in <--
> the original request.
> ==
>
Received on Wed Nov 15 2000 - 19:58:10 MST

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