Re: IE4- Cache from Mark D. Anderson on 1999-06-07 (www-talk@w3.org from May to June 1999)

From: Mark D. Anderson <mda@discerning.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 09:26:33 -0700
To: <www-talk@w3.org>
Message-ID: <067f01beb102$94353b00$0200a8c0@mdaxke.mediacity.com>

if you are trying to cache-bust an img, i believe there
is a well-known bug in IE that it ignores cache directives
for them. That is why ad servers have to play goofy games
with generated URL strings.
ie only deals with cache directives for html.
i believe this is fixed with ie5.

-mda

Received on Monday, 7 June 1999 12:28:15 UTC