Re: hotmail caching

From: Dancer <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:47:46 +1000

"Nottingham, Mark (Australia)" wrote:
>
> > no-cache completely denies the cache to cache the objects.
>
> As a response header, this isn't true;
>
> 14.9.1
> [...]
> no-cache
> If the no-cache directive does not specify a field-name, then a cache MUST
> NOT use the response to satisfy a subsequent request without successful
> revalidation with the origin server. This allows an origin server to prevent
> caching even by caches that have been configured to return stale responses
> to client requests.

Curiouser and curiouser, thought Alice.
Time to dump the document to the printer and bind a reference copy,
methinks. I need to have one on hand.

D
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 20:37:11 MDT

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