[HTTPCLIENT-1713] Certain responses from a POST should be cacheable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.4-alpha1
• Component/s: HttpCache
• Labels: stuck volunteers-wanted
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Brian Chang
• Created: 15/Jan/16 18:17
• Updated: 21/Aug/23 08:54
• Resolved: 07/May/23 08:41

Description

In ResponseCachingPolicy, only GET and HEAD methods are cacheable. However, according to RFC 2616 https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html#sec9.5 a POST may be cacheable.

The exact circumstances are better detailed here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-20#section-2.3.4

Issue Links

• is related to: HTTPCLIENT-1827 Provide caching for streamed HTTP exchanges in CachingHttpAsyncClient