Re: HTTP Compliance tests

From: Mark Nottingham (mnot@akamai.com)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 15:05:05 MDT


I think this would be taken care of by the Vary testing.

Also, it would be nice (maybe I'm dreaming here) to test a history of
products, not just the most recent a vendor has to offer. From the logs I've
looked at, there are a *lot* of old proxies out there.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:51:36PM -0400, Andrew Myers wrote:
> I'd like to suggest one more area: content negotiation. As a random
> example of what can go wrong: Some caches will serve up gzip encoded
> content to a client that hasn't advertised that it can accept such
> content. There are a number of uglier issues with content negotiation
> (hello byte ranges!), but I'd just like to see some tests for the
> really basic stuff.
>
> Andy
>
> Mark C Nottingham writes:
> >
> > Here are some areas that seem to be common pitfalls. Comments/additions
> > welcome; this is just a starting point.
> [...]

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Mark Nottingham, Senior Developer
Akamai Technologies (San Mateo, CA)



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