Re: [Acme] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC8555 (5771)

Ask Bjørn Hansen <ask@develooper.com> Thu, 04 July 2019 16:25 UTC

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> On Jul 2, 2019, at 07:04, RFC Errata System <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> wrote:
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> If no Cache-Control header(s) were received, the client MUST
> act as if "Cache-Control: no-cache" was received.

If this is a MUST, the server should be sending it, perhaps.

> If the directory object is no longer fresh, the client MUST access the directory again
> (by sending another GET request to the directory URL) and then use the
> updated directory object.

Unless the server sent a 304 response, wouldn’t the client just have gotten the object contents in the first request?

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