Re: minimum-cache time?+

From: Miguel A.L. Paraz <map@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 14:41:13 +0000 ()

Hi,

David J N Begley wrote:

> I don't get it - why is this necessary when (certainly from our stats, and
> seemingly others based upon problems people are seeing with Microsoft's
> site) clearly Microsoft's stuff can be cached *already*? Or does Squid
> 1.1 act differently to 1.0?

Perhaps for other objects within MS, but, http://www.microsoft.com
tells us not to cache it, three times in the MIME headers.
>
> Hasn't stopped anyone else causing problems - why should it stop us from
> trying to fix 'em (as terrible as protocol violation is)?

Yeah, but if we break protocols in response to others breaking them,
the word "protocol" loses it's meaning...

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Received on Sun Oct 27 1996 - 06:53:41 MST

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