We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary – Cloudflare Blog
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The response header, Vary , has been called “ the ugliest part of HTTP that we haven't yet improved. ” The same post describes it as a “horrible, kludgy mechanism” with “pretty abysmal interoperability” across intermediaries. That is usually where sensible engineers back away slowly with their hands raised. That’s not exactly an endorsement of Vary , but ugly doesn’t mean useless. One URL can have more than one corr…
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- We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: VaryCloudflare Blog