Re: page reloads

J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk <Pine.SUN.3.91.950531123242.188G-100000@weeble.lut.ac.uk>:
>Proxy caches shouldn't be caching any returns from 
>CGI scripts as these are likely to be dynamic documents (ie they can 
>change between invocations).

Please note the word "likely" - you wrote it yourself. The fact
that something results from a CGI script doesn't qualify for
immediate expiry. A proxy cache should always pay attention to the
Expires header, even if the URL contains a '?' and a search string.
There are CGI results lasting for years (at least).

Best regards
Rainer Klute

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Received on Wednesday, 31 May 1995 13:20:57 UTC