- From: Donald Neal <d.neal@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:56:40 +1200
- To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
At 04:15 PM 14/03/97 -0800, Jeffrey Mogul wrote: >Koen and I have been discussing offline whether it is possible >to send > Expires: Sun, 06 Nov 1994 08:49:37 GMT >(or some similar ancient date) to ensure that *every* pre-HTTP/1.1 >proxy cache will not, under *any* circumstances, cache the response. [...] >Koen mentioned this: > Shel Kaphan told me about 1.5 years ago that AOL's proxy cached 1.0 > responses for some minimum time no matter what. I don't know if > that is still true now. Also, I think New Zealand's (academic) > hierarchical proxy cache system has some kind of nontransparency > for `certain sites with a low educational value'. Some New Zealand educational caches use very long TTL's for such sites. That's not the same as ignoring "Expires". - Donald Neal
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