Recommend use of the Vary header in version 2 of the Users Guide
ghobona opened this issue · 2 comments
ghobona commented
During the 2022-11 Web Mapping Code Sprint, there was feedback that to prevent the server from caching responses in some cases, it might be necessary to use the Vary header.
ghobona commented
@jerstlouis Please elaborate.
jerstlouis commented
For resource end-points that may return a different representation for the content encoded differently based on request headers, any header value should be included as part of a Vary: response header.
e.g., Vary: Accept, Accept-Encoding, Prefer
This will avoid issues with proxying / caching.