Re: PUT response

[Subbu Allamaraju <subbu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 9:24 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
> Thomas Broyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Nikunj Mehta wrote:
> > > The HTTP spec states that
> > >
> > >   Responses to this [PUT] method are not cacheable.
> >
> > ...except if you include a proper Cache-Control header.
>
> The latest HTTPbis draft just says "Responses to this method are not  
> cacheable." for PUT.

Any reason why? With 2616, if a response has Content-Location and  
Cache-Control, caches are free to replace currently cached copies with  
the representation in the response. The response to the PUT itself  
will be fresh, but a subsequent GET to the Content-Location URI may be  
from a cache.

Thanks
Subbu