Closed Bug 1348702 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Apply heuristic freshness to more status codes

Categories

(Core :: Networking: Cache, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking: Cache
Version:
55 Branch
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: mnot, Unassigned)

Details

HTTP allows heuristic freshness to be applied to any status code that is "cachable by default":
  http://httpwg.org/specs/rfc7231.html#overview.of.status.codes

According to testing:
  https://github.com/mnot/web-platform-tests/blob/http-cache/fetch/http-cache/heuristic.html

Firefox will only apply heuristics to 200, 203 and 410. It should also use it for 204, 404, 405, 414, and 501.

Safari applies it to all of these status codes.
this is intentional - (especially with heurisitics!) they are restricted to data we expect to be data the user wants.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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