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Re: WGLC p6 4.2.1

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Mon, 18 March 2013 12:25 UTC

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In message <em2c99bf04-f567-48b2-b6c9-34d6777aad66@bombed>, "Adrien W. de Croy" writes:

>>It very much is: A cache would have to be stupid to make that
>>assumption, and we should not be protecting stupid mistakes with
>>the specification, we should make things work.
>it was just one example.  There are potentially limitless ones.
>
>fundamentally, we're changing the semantics.

No, at most we're changing the text.

The HTTP sematics is whatever is in used out there on the big bad net...

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