RE: configuring web pages to allow/deny caching?

> From: Matt Ashfield [SMTP:mda@unb.ca]
>
        Deliberately vague replies as this could be homework.

> I'm doing a short presentation on our web caching project. I would like to
> show how HTML tags affect caching. So I guess I"m asking a very general
>
        None should, and none do on squid. See the HTML 4 spec
        for the real meaning of META.

> question about how do I configure web pages to allow/deny caching? From
> what
> I've seen, some pages have expires tags that expire the exact time you get
> the page (this is commonly seen at "big" sites, like cnn.com, ibm.com
> ,etc..).
>
        There is a lot more flexibility than this. See the HTTP
        1.1 specification.

> I've also heard of the no-cache tag, but have not seen it being used. Is
> this tag used for the entire HTTP document or can it be placed around
> certain components of the page (ie. no-cache around hte text and not
> around
> the gifs).
>
        The GIFs are separate documents.
Received on Mon Dec 06 1999 - 07:01:14 MST