On Wednesday 28 August 2002 05.43, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Michael.Schroepl@telekurs.de wrote:
> > If Squid 2.4 _did_ treat Accept-Encoding as something
> > special, it would be able to prevent M$IE running in
> > HTTP/1.0 from unexpectedly receiving gzipped content,
> > thus "questioning" the "obviously" missing "Vary:"
> > header.
> > (If encoded content is there, it _should_ at least de-
> > pend on the "Accept-Encoding" header - Squid could be
> > suspicious about this combination and rather not use
> > the cache content in this case, but "punish the server"
> > by forwarding the request. Isn't this an option?)
>
> Sure, it is an option, but outside of the HTTP specification.
Correction: It is a viable option within the boundaries set by the
HTTP specification. I did misread your proposal the first time.
Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Aug 28 2002 - 15:49:06 MDT
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