- From: Drazen Kacar <dave@public.srce.hr>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 02:55:54 +0200
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Jeffrey Mogul wrote:
> I'm not sure that the HTTP/1.1 specification needs to say much more
> about this ... but since it apparently was not sufficiently clear
> to at least some readers, I'll propose an editorial change.
> I propose adding this to the end of section 13.9:
>
> Note that some HTTP/1.0 cache operators have found that it is
> dangerous to cache responses to requests for URLs including the
> string "cgi-bin". HTTP/1.1 caches should follow this practice
> for responses that do not include an explicit expiration time.
> HTTP/1.1 origin servers that want to allow caching of responses
> for URLs including "?" or "cgi-bin" SHOULD include an explicit
> expiration time. Explicit expiration times may be specified
> using Expires, or the max-age directive of Cache-Control, or
> both.
I think CERN server is usually configured with "htbin" as CGI directory.
There are still a lot of them around. And people who switched from CERN
to something else probably kept htbin directory because all existing
pages pointed to it.
I'm a bit confused with the proposed addition. I thought
Cache-Control: public
would be enough, but that's not explicitly stated.
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