[MERGE][bug #120697] Don't force http cache revalidation

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Tue Nov 20 15:33:09 GMT 2007


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Vincent Ladeuil wrote:
>     aaron> It was needed because of broken proxies that would return stale data,
>     aaron> causing breakage in fetch, unless we did that.
> 
> So the bug report is wrong and we shouldn't fix that behavior or
> not ?

To me, it's a tough call.  You get really strange errors when your proxy
is returning stale data, so I'd be inclined to leave it on by default,
and allow people to disable it.

Fortunately, packs don't reuse names, so breaking fetch is much less of
a concern.

Aaron
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