[OAUTH-WG] Improper use of 'Pragma: no-cache' response header in OAuth 2.0 RFCs?
Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com> Thu, 19 February 2015 23:48 UTC
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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Improper use of 'Pragma: no-cache' response header in OAuth 2.0 RFCs?
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Examples in RFC 6750 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750> and RFC 6749 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749> as well as some normative text in section 5.1 of RFC 6749 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-5.1> use a "Pragma: no-cache" HTTP response header. However, both RFC 2616 <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-14.32> and the shiny new RFC 7234 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234#section-5.4> make special note along the lines of the following to say that it doesn't work as response header: 'Note: Because the meaning of "Pragma: no-cache" in responses is not specified, it does not provide a reliable replacement for "Cache-Control: no-cache" in them.' The header doesn't hurt anything, I don't think, so having it in these documents isn't really a problem. But it seems like it'd be better to not further perpetuate the "Pragma: no-cache" response header myth in actual published RFCs. So with that said, two questions: 1) Do folks agree that 6747/6750 are using the "Pragma: no-cache" response header inappropriately? 2) If so, does this qualify as errata?
- [OAUTH-WG] Improper use of 'Pragma: no-cache' res… Brian Campbell
- Re: [OAUTH-WG] Improper use of 'Pragma: no-cache'… Brian Campbell
- Re: [OAUTH-WG] Improper use of 'Pragma: no-cache'… John Bradley