Status:

Held for Document Update

Type:

Technical

Reported By:

Danil Suits

Date Reported:

2018-11-02

Held for Document Update by:

Alexey Melnikov

Date Held for Document Update:

2019-03-20

Section 4.3.5 says:

If a DELETE
   request passes through a cache that has one or more stored responses
   for the effective request URI, those stored responses will be
   invalidated

It should say:

If a successful DELETE
   request passes through a cache that has one or more stored responses
   for the effective request URI, those stored responses will be
   invalidated

Notes:

RFC 7234 4.4 describes the semantics of cache invalidation for successful requests (non-error status code), but does not describe semantics for unsuccessful requests.  The corrected text parallels the construction in section 4.3.4 ("If a successful PUT request...").

Mark Nottingham wrote:

I think HOLD FOR UPDATE; we can address this in the current http-core work.