Re: [dnsext] draft-mohan-dns-query-xml-00.txt

Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk> Sat, 01 October 2011 21:00 UTC

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From: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
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--On 1 October 2011 11:25:22 -0700 Nicholas Weaver 
<nweaver@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:

>> -.5. You are assuming that a bad HTTP cache will be bad in a predictable
>> fashion. I'm not against using nonces to bust caches, but I don't think
>> we should rely on it.
>
> No, what I'm assuming is SOME minimal-level of nonborkenness.
>
> IF a cache takes url
>
> http://www.example.com/url_a
>
> and instead returns
>
> http://www.example.com/url_b

This is true, but the GET/POST question is half orthogonal (so that would 
be 45 degrees?) to the nonce question. IE you could use a POST plus a nonce 
if you wanted. IIRC POST /should/ do enough alone to avoid the need for a 
nonce though, as I can't see how any web cache would cache POSTs.

-- 
Alex Bligh
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