Re: next version of content-encoding / gzip design doc

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Jon Kay wrote:
>
> > If Accept-Encoding field is present in client request
> >
> > If server or cache response contains Content-Encoding field with
> > encodings that are a subset of what the client accepts
>
> This must be relaxed to just "contains a Content-Encoding field", ignoring
> if it is acceptable by the client. If not you run into ugly corner cases
> if the server ignores what the client accepts.
>

OOPS. I misstated this test.

It SHOULD be:

    If Accept-Encoding field is present in client request

        If there is a cached response aleady available, and it
       contains a Content-Encoding field with encodings that are a
       subset of what the client accepts

            Then forward response to client unchanged

        Else (no cached response with right content-encoding)

...

otherwise the same.
Received on Tue Mar 09 2004 - 00:14:17 MST