Re: [OAUTH-WG] Improper use of 'Pragma: no-cache' response header in OAuth 2.0 RFCs?

John Bradley <ve7jtb@ve7jtb.com> Tue, 24 February 2015 18:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Improper use of 'Pragma: no-cache' response header in OAuth 2.0 RFCs?
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Yes, so we should track it but I don’t think it rises to the level of an errata on its own. 
> On Feb 19, 2015, at 6:47 PM, Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
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