Re: Separate module for User-Agent header (was Re: Proposal: we add new bugzilla component for webRTC stuff?)

Patrick McManus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.netlib
Message-ID <1330521955.2182.219.camel@ds9>
On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 15:41 -0800, Brian Smith wrote:
> Christian Biesinger wrote:
> > Brian Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > these headers every time they change. (And we need to assume an
> > > implicit "Vary: User-Agent" on every cached response, considering
> > > how often Vary: User-Agent is wrongly omitted.)
> 
> A literal application of that idea is not realistic because we change U-A for every release. But, this is something to keep in mind if we make any (more) major changes other than version numbers.
> 

+1 here. we don't need to bust local cache entries that vary on UA. We
know apriori the client didn't change to another browser :) - no need to
be slaves to semantics - that isn't serving the user.
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