- From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 15:07:06 MDT
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
I wrote:
> While simply adding "Cache-control: public" to a response does
> imply that it is cachable, this doesn't say enough. I.e., how
> long is the response "fresh"? It seems more useful, in general,
> to use
> Cache-control: max-age=3600
> (or whatever), since this also implies cachability, but it also
> gives more explicit information to the cache.
Drazen Kacar <dave@public.srce.hr> writes:
What if freshness is infinite?
Then send something like
Cache-control: max-age=99999999
which isn't exactly "infinite", but (at about 3 years) is close
enough for any realistic cache.
-Jeff
Received on Thursday, 17 April 1997 15:17:06 UTC