Re: Cache

Jim Seidman (jim@spyglass.com)
Wed, 22 Feb 95 09:20:07 EST

Daniel Glazman writes:
>Could a new element inside HEAD indicate that the document must not be
>read from a local client cache but retrieved through a real connexion ?
>
>It could be very interesting for statistics documents or any other
>"real time updated" stuff...

You can achieve the same effect by using the HTTP "expires" header, with the
document expiration date set to the current time. This technique has the
additional advantage that proxy servers and the like can know not to cache
the document without having to parse HTML code. (Also, this attribute can
apply to file types other than HTML documents.)

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Jim Seidman, Senior Software Engineer, Spyglass Inc.