- From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 11:11:05 +0100 (MET)
- To: steve@iafrica.com (Steve Davies)
- Cc: paulle@microsoft.com, sjk@amazon.com, http-caching@pa.dec.com
> > I always asumed that the existence of a "?" in the request-URI > > prevented proxies from caching the result-entity, so that this couldn't happen? > > But that heuristic is a total kludge. In itself, the "?" says nothing > about cacheability. Often the response from the server given the same ... > So it seems to me that the real solution is to get cache-control > meta-data from the source server. So web server authors need to be > encouraged to make this easy for webmasters. I fully agree on this. Luigi ==================================================================== Luigi Rizzo Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ ====================================================================
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