Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 82051 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 00:30:57 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 5 May 2004 00:30:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 95895 invoked by uid 500); 5 May 2004 00:30:09 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-dev-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 95831 invoked by uid 500); 5 May 2004 00:30:09 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: dev@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 95733 invoked from network); 5 May 2004 00:30:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gatekeeper.fma.co.za) (196.30.143.210) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 5 May 2004 00:30:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gatekeeper.fma.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8BF34AE5 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 02:30:04 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gatekeeper.fma.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gatekeeper.fma.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11232-01 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 02:29:53 +0200 (SAST) Received: from sharp.fm (gatekeeper.fma.co.za [196.30.143.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gatekeeper.fma.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC5C34AE3 for ; Wed, 5 May 2004 02:29:45 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <40983579.40801@sharp.fm> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 02:29:45 +0200 From: Graham Leggett User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040301 X-Accept-Language: en-za, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dev@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies? References: <5290618C-9E25-11D8-9B41-000393753936@gbiv.com> In-Reply-To: <5290618C-9E25-11D8-9B41-000393753936@gbiv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at fma.co.za X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Roy T. Fielding wrote: > I do wish people would read the specification to refresh their memory > before summarizing. RFC 2616 doesn't say anything about cookies -- it > doesn't have to because there are already several mechanisms for marking > a request or response as varying. In this case > > Vary: Cookie > > added to the response by the server module (the only component capable > of knowing how the resource varies) is sufficient for caching clients > that are compliant with HTTP/1.1. My sentence "RFC2616 does not consider a request with a different cookie a different variant" should have read "RFC2616 does not recognise cookies specifically at all, as they are just another header". I did not think of the Vary case, sorry for the confusion. Regards, Graham --