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Revert "QUERY: caching - mention GET alternative wrt caching (addresses #3120)"
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draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body.xml

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The cache key for a QUERY request (see <xref target="HTTP-CACHING" section="2"/>) &MUST;
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incorporate the request content (<xref target="HTTP-CACHING" section="6"/>) and related
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metadata (<xref target="HTTP-CACHING" section="8"/>).
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incorporate the request content.
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Caches <bcp14>MAY</bcp14> remove semantically insignificant differences first, thereby
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that they wish that no such transformation happens (but note that this directive is just
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advisory).
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Note that caching QUERY method responses is inherently more complex than caching responses
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to GET, as complete reading of the request's content is needed in order to determine
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the cache key. If a QUERY response supplies a Location response field (<xref target="location"/>)
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to indicate a URI for an equivalent resource (<xref target="equivalent-resource"/>), clients
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can switch to GET for subsequent requests, thereby simplifying processing.
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</section>
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<section title="Range Requests" anchor="range">

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