Re: dont-revalidate Cache-Control header

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Thu, 16 July 2015 09:29 UTC

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> On 14 Jul 2015, at 2:36 pm, Ben Maurer <ben.maurer@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Static is a fairly reasonable name. Static does imply that the resource will *never* be revalidated (ever) vs the dont-reload which implies no revalidations prior to expiration. I don't have any preferences between the two but wanted to call that out.
> 
> What's the next step here? 

Writing a small spec. Is there anyone who has experience doing this that's interested in helping out here? E.g., Ilya?

Cheers,

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