> In the absence of another (cleaner) way to prevent caching this will > become the de facto way for a server to tell a client (or proxy) not > to cache. > > This, in effect, overloads the Last-Modified header so that > > Last-Modified: <date in 2010> > > means "please don't cache this document." This is obscure and error prone. Uh, well, just leaving it out will tell the same thing. That would be a much better "de facto", doesn't involve forging. Both NS and CERN proxies support it now. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development TeamReceived on Wednesday, 16 August 1995 09:51:14 EDT
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