Accept-Encoding: gzip and the Vary header

[Xavier Noria]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:11 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

The problem with Vary is that it causes bad effects on shared caches, in
> particular, it normaly results in cache duplication.


You mean that if client A requests a resource with Accept-Encoding: gzip,
and client B without, and the resource has Cache-Control: public, then a
shared cache would store the compressed and uncompressed responses thus
having the content kind of repeated?
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