i37: Vary and non-existant headers

http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/37

Roy sort-of proposed deleting "present" in <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2006OctDec/0090.html 
 >

In addition, I'd propose:

* adding: "When a resource's representations vary, an origin server  
SHOULD include the Vary header even when the selecting header(s) are  
not present; otherwise, caches will use that representation  
inappropriately."

* adding: "Caches MAY canonicalise request headers before comparing  
them for purposes of determining whether they match during variant  
selection."


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Received on Monday, 28 July 2008 15:19:23 UTC