Re: hotmail caching

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 03:48:04 +0200

Dancer wrote:
>
> 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?

It is only defined for requests.

But, because many common clients honours it on replies as well proxies
are more or less forced to honour it by defacto standard, or some
applications may break.

--
Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 19:33:25 MDT

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