Subject: Re: conditional request vs GET (new issue?)

From: Mark Nottingham <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:04:29 +1100

This is issue 96;
   <http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/96>

I've made it editorial.

On 10/12/2007, at 2:53 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> apparently people are confused by the fact that the definition of  
> GET specifically mentions conditional headers:
>
>   The semantics of the GET method change to a "conditional GET" if the
>   request message includes an If-Modified-Since, If-Unmodified-Since,
>   If-Match, If-None-Match, or If-Range header field. A conditional GET
>   method requests that the entity be transferred only under the
>   circumstances described by the conditional header field(s). The
>   conditional GET method is intended to reduce unnecessary network
>   usage by allowing cached entities to be refreshed without requiring
>   multiple requests or transferring data already held by the client.  
> -- <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-9.3>
>
> Do we need to clarify that conditionals apply to all requests? (do  
> they?).
>
> BR, Julian
>

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