Re: httpbis-p6-cache-06 and no-store response directive

Exactly. This is a problem that can be addressed by evangelisation and  
education.

E.g., Curl until quite recently emitted Pragma: no-cache, but as of  
this January (IIRC) this changed.


On 17/06/2009, at 7:12 AM, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> mån 2009-06-15 klockan 16:42 +0200 skrev Yngve Nysaeter Pettersen:
>
>> As I said above: If they made the choice. In many cases I don't  
>> think they
>> did more than select a development environment that made the choice  
>> for
>> them, based on what is supposed to provide a "revalidate each time  
>> the
>> user clicks on a link to this document"-functionality, that is, the  
>> same
>> as "Cache-Control: max-age=0" and "no-cache".
>
> All environments I have seen support setting these kind of things if  
> you
> care about them, and emit a default "do not cahe this response" header
> if the author / site developer using such environment don't care. Most
> people who don't care simply do not know, and quite happily try to
> accomodate for caching when they learn what it is.
>
> Blaiming the dev environment for emitting a safe low-performance  
> default
> cache profile won't get us very far, neither is trying to work around
> this in the cache layer. This situation will persist, and any  
> changes we
> make to the protocol will only get reflected in those dev environments
> using the new names, until the content/site developers gets their acts
> together.
>
> This is a case of careless developers making their sites slower than
> they need to be, not a specifacion fault, and not causing an error of
> any kind, just slow performance due to content author/developer
> ignorance, just as the 100 other asoects which makes web content
> delivery slower than it need to be and is as frequently ignored by
> content developers/authors.
>
> Regarding some of the big sites using this that can only be assumed to
> be their choice, quite likely due to browser bugs in dealing with
> no-cache or Vary:. Many of these sites uses Cookie based logins or  
> user
> identification, with a farily large userbase of "known users" who do  
> get
> slightly modified content compared to anonymous readers.
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>


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