HTTP (was Re: caching css documents)

• From: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
• Date: 25 Oct 2000 12:20:04 -0000
• To: www-style@w3.org
• Message-ID: <20001025122004.9742.qmail@phoenix.futurequest.net>

You wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> I've got a simple question really. I was wondering if
> someone can control browser caching of a css document.
> Pontings to relevant resources would be much
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Try the HTTP RFC. (Pragma: no-cache is the backwards compatible way of 
doing it, Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate at HTTP 1.1, and 
also Expires: [some time in the past].

Read your server manual and configure it to send these headers; if you 
use Apache, you probably won't need write access 
to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf [or wherever], but can just put the file 
in a user directory.

(This hasn't got anything to do with CSS, apart from the fact that some 
browsers are overly fond of caching CSS pages.)

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Received on Wednesday, 25 October 2000 08:20:06 UTC