• From: John Cowan <cowan@l...>
• To: XML Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:29:58 -0400

Richard Tobin wrote:

> > That *is* supposed to be a rule: that you can GET the same URL
> > as many times as you want with no changes.  Otherwise caching
> > would not work.
> 
> Surely the whole mechanism of HTTP "if-modified-since" and "expires"
> headers exists because this is not true?

I overstated my case.  What I meant was that the *very act* of
doing a GET is not supposed to change anything.  Obviously the
*result* of doing a GET may change over time.

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