Re: IE6 and Cache-Control headers

It maybe an idea to reiterate those basic factors we all learnt at college!
Data is primarily sorted in the cache (how many hits provides hit-rate and
so on). If the data is 'frequently' stored and implemented, systems would
then use smart caching. There is however a world of complexities on which
information is repeatedly kept/used!

Ahmed



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>
To: <anzenews@volja.net>
Cc: <www-talk@w3.org>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: IE6 and Cache-Control headers


>
> Cache implementations are not *required* to cache things when they're
> cacheable; they're only required to not cache them when they're
> uncacheable. Some browser cache implementations (not just IE) are quite
> simplistic and/or conservative, so they may not cache a lot of things
> that other caches will.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2004, at 7:44 AM, Anews wrote:
>
> > Now: other browsers (Opera, Konqueror and Mozilla for Linux) obey and
> > check
> > the server for newer versions, yet they allow me to issue 304 response
> > - the
> > way it should be. But IE6 just doesn't cache the response. The weird
> > thing is
> > that it works as expected on my production server (over LAN), but not
> > over
> > Internet.
> >
> > Am I missing something? I tried "Cache-Control: private" too, but to no
> > avail...
> >
>
>

Received on Monday, 5 January 2004 11:41:57 UTC