- From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Martin Hamilton <martin@mrrl.lut.ac.uk>
- Cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com, ircache@nlanr.net
Martin Hamilton writes: > > Don't use secure servers to serve images and other non-sensitive > objects, since these will be uncacheable and may not be passed > through a cache hierarchy. > Not a good recommendation: some browsers will put up a dialog box whenever there's a reference from a secure page to a non-secure page, including embedded references such as image URLs. This leads to a fairly infuriating experience as a user, as multiple dialog boxes are put up to display one page of results.
Received on Monday, 9 June 1997 12:00:53 UTC