please review 'application/pdf'
Larry Masinter
LMM at acm.org
Mon Dec 8 02:08:24 CET 2003
> > In HTTP, the "cache-control: private" directive is defined
> > with normative language for HTTP implementations about which
> > bits they may or may not "share" with other users.
>
> clever, but it's not quite the same thing. cache-control limits what
> an HTTP intermediary can do with the file, but doesn't place any
> restrictions on the user.
So you would be satisfied if the document expressed the constraint
in terms of behavior of the implementations, rather than a constraint
on the users of those implementations?
Larry
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