RE: hotmail caching

Yes. There was some discussion about this in the HTTP-WG right before the
final draft was released, but it was too late to do anything about it.

This came about because some caches did honor Pragma: no-cache as a response
header, and it caught on a bit (much as Proxy-Connection did). The proper
header sequence is:

Expires: [some time in the past]
and:
Cache-Control: max-age: 0
or:
Cache-Control: no-cache

Expires catches the 1.0 caches; I believe max-age:0 is preferred, for some
reason.

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>
> Maybe I'm being daft, but isn't 'pragma: no-cache' supposed to only be
> honoured by proxies when present in a request header, rather than in a
> response header?
>
> D
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>
> Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> >
> > Hotmail is sending pragma: no cache
> >
> > On Wed, 12 May 1999 Leonard_Hoang@nag.national.com.au wrote:
> >
> > | Hi all,
> > |
> > | I have squid 2.2 stable running on a Redhat 5.2 Linux box.
> > | By looking at the squid logs it seems like its working
> ok and and it is
> > | TCP_HIT for sites that I have accessed second time
> around. However hotmail
> > | always seems to TCP_MISS and doesnt get cached?
> > | Could anyone help me out?..what do I need / dont need in
> my squid.conf to
> > | fix this?
> > |
> > | regards
> > |
> > | Leo Hoang
> > | Team Eight Computer Services
> > |
> > |
> > |
> >
> > --
> > Corporations are not evil. That kind of anthropomorphism is
> inappropriate.
> > Corporations are too stupid to be evil, only people can be
> that. -jwz
>
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 19:32:25 MDT