Bug 35245

Summary: cache ignores max-age cache-directive in requests to max-aged responses
Product: Apache httpd-2 Reporter: Co-Advisor <coad>
Component: mod_cache_disk / mod_disk_cacheAssignee: Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status: RESOLVED LATER    
Severity: normal Keywords: MassUpdate, RFC
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.54   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
URL: http://coad.measurement-factory.com/cgi-bin/coad/GraseInfoCgi?session=42a468e1_1291_c0f30e14&info_id=test_case/rfc2616/ccRespDirMsg-max-age-overMaxAge-resp
Attachments: test case trace

Description Co-Advisor 2005-06-06 21:22:03 UTC
Looks like a possible RFC 2616 MUST violation.
Apache cache ignores max-age cache-control 
directive in the request (possibly only when
the response has another max-age, which indicated
that the response is still fresh).

See attached traces for details and ways to reproduce
some of the violations mentioned above.

Test case IDs in the trace link to human-oriented
test case description and RFC quotes, if available.

Note: A related fixed bug 15869 deals with the 
response max-age. This bug is about the request
max-age.
Comment 1 Co-Advisor 2005-06-06 21:32:16 UTC
Created attachment 15318 [details]
test case trace

Note that the response has its own max-age.
The response is fresh according to its own
max-age, but not according to the request max-age.
RFC 2616 says request max-age MUST be honored here.
We do not know whether the response max-age is a
factor (or all request max-age directives are ignored).
Comment 2 William A. Rowe Jr. 2018-11-07 21:09:55 UTC
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