Re: p2: Considerations for new headers

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Wed, 24 April 2013 08:19 UTC

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Looks good to me as well.

On 24 Apr 2013, at 09:06, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:

> On 2013-04-24 10:03, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>> We should consider adding the following to the laundry list of considerations in p2 8.3.1:
>> 
>> * Whether the field should be stored by origin servers that understand it upon a PUT request.
>> 
>> Furthermore, I think we should change:
>> 
>> * How the header field might interact with caching (see [Part6]).
>> 
>> to:
>> 
>> * When the header is used in requests and affects response selection [ref], it is good practice to advise listing that header in the Vary response header [ref].
>> 
>> Finally, we should add (near the top of the section):
>> 
>> """
>> New header fields cannot change the semantics of a message in an incompatible fashion. That is, it is not possible to require recipients to understand a header field through its mere presence. However, new methods and status codes can require the presence of headers in their definitions, in the scope of the message they occur within.
>> """
>> 
>> Make sense?
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
>