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Thread: Effect of Vary:Cookie?




Effect of Vary:Cookie?
user name
2006-03-20 15:42:13

I'm wondering if Vary:Cookie should cause cache to be
invalidated when  
cookie changes.

As far as I understand RFC, sending Vary:Cookie should
inform browser that  
it can cache copy of page only for practicular value of
Cookie header, so  
if any page later changes site-wide cookie, browser
shouldn't use cached  
copies any more for any resource that has been sent with
Vary:Cookie.

Is that correct?


I've prepared test-case for this:
http://87.230.0.83
/cache/index.php

but no browser I know seems to support this. They either
don't use cached  
copy when Vary is present or ignore change of cookie and use
cached  
content generated for different value of Cookie header.

-- 
regards, Kornel Lesiński

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