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Define 'cache key'
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Fixes #728.
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<iref item="cache key" />
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The <x:dfn>cache key</x:dfn> is comprised of, at a minimum, the request method and target
The <x:dfn>cache key</x:dfn> is the information used to select a response and
is comprised of, at a minimum, the request method and target
URI used to retrieve the stored response; the method determines under which
circumstances that response can be used to satisfy a subsequent request. However, many
HTTP caches in common use today only cache GET responses, and therefore only
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<section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-cache-14" anchor="changes.since.14">
<ul x:when-empty="None yet.">
<li>Fix subsection ordering in <xref target="cache-response-directive"/> (<eref target="https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/674"/>)</li>
<li>In <xref target="caching.overview"/>, define what a cache key is (<eref target="https://github.com/httpwg/http-core/issues/728"/>)</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
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