Re: Netscape 4 ?

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> A little warning on this.

What ?? NOW A WARNING [:-(

> If enabling this patch, then there is no way
> to enforce a refresh if a bad/outdated page gets cached and the dates
> get out of sync.
>
> What hits me is that this is most likely a bug/design glitch and not a
> intended feature in Netscape 4.. Their intent is most likely to ignore
> local cache and not all caches, but using general code it slips
> throught.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordström
>
> Duane Wessels wrote:
>
> > This patch is designed to have the following effects
> >
> > * if the request includes both 'no-cache' and 'If-Modified-Since'
> > the 'no-cache' is simply ignored
> >
> > * if the request includes only 'no-cache' then Squid
> > makes an 'If-Modified-Since' request out the other side.
> >
>

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