On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 01:23:38PM -0700, kevin wrote:
>
> > i want nginx to include ContentType text/css for css files in 304 Not
> > Modified request
> >
> > here is the headers for the static css file request. you can see that
> there
> > is no ContentType sent.
>
> RFC 2616 says about 304 responses:
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-10.3.5)
>
> If the conditional GET used a strong cache validator (see section
> 13.3.3), the response SHOULD NOT include other entity-headers.
> Otherwise (i.e., the conditional GET used a weak validator), the
> response MUST NOT include other entity-headers; this prevents
> inconsistencies between cached entity-bodies and updated headers.
>
> Content-Type is entity header and not listed above this paragraph,
> so clearly qualifies as "other entity-headers".
>
> Could you please clarify why you think RFC is wrong here and you
> need Content-Type in 304 response?
>
it is for a facebook app, and i do not have control over this. without this
header the css file is not processed as css at all.
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