@techreport{mogul-http-revalidate-01, number = {draft-mogul-http-revalidate-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mogul-http-revalidate/01/}, author = {Jeffrey Mogul}, title = {{Forcing HTTP/1.1 proxies to revalidate responses}}, pagetotal = 10, year = 1997, month = may, day = 28, abstract = {The HTTP/1.1 specification {[}1{]} currently defines a {}`{}`proxy-revalidate'' Cache-control directive, which forces a proxy to revalidate a stale response before using it in a reply. There is no mechanism defined that forces a proxy, but not an end-client, to revalidate a fresh response. The lack of such a mechanism is due to an error in drafting RFC2068, and appears to create problems for use of the Authorization header, the Digest Access Authentication extension {[}2{]}, the State Management Mechanism {[}3{]}, and several other proposed extensions. This document discusses the problem and several possible solutions, and proposes to add a new {}`{}`s-maxage'' directive as the best available solution.}, }