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Re: [weirds] feedback on draft-designteam-weirds-using-http

Andy Newton <andy@arin.net> Thu, 17 May 2012 18:56 UTC

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To: Arturo Servin <aservin@lacnic.net>
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Arturo,

Would you mind us moving and describing the technique in an appendix without reserving a specific parameter?
The technique would be to select a parameter unlikely to be used in the specification, such as "tenterhooksarekewl".

-andy

On May 17, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Arturo Servin wrote:

> 
> 	I found the solution interesting to deal with the problem using simple agents, but any decent agent should support adding this header.
> 
> 	Point taken.
> 
> .as
> 	
> 
> On 17 May 2012, at 14:22, Julian Reschke wrote:
> 
>> On 2012-05-17 19:16, Arturo Servin wrote:
>>> 
>>> I think it is important to mention it. Otherwise you will end up with
>>> different approaches to solve the problem for getting fresh information.
>>> ...
>> 
>> Well, the *right* way is to send Cache-Control.
>> 
>> "cache busting" using variations in the request-URI is just a hack that happens to work with broken caches.
>> 
>> Best regards, Julian
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