Re: Comments on Byte range draft
Ari Luotonen (luotonen@netscape.com)
Mon, 13 Nov 1995 16:46:41 -0800 (PST)
> Unfortunately, this isn't true. The rule is: if you see a response code
> that you don't understand, you must treat it as if the code was <N>00,
> where <N> is the first character of the response code. Thus, a conformant
> HTTP/1.0 system should treat a code '205' as code '200'.
Nevertheless, the current practice in proxies is to be safe and not
cache anything that isn't 200. So it will be backwords compatible
with existing implementations.
Cheers,
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Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com
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