Re: WWW Proxy information

altis@ibeam.jf.intel.com (Kevin Altis)
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Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 00:38:03 +0200
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Subject: Re: WWW Proxy information
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At  3:50 PM 5/1/94 -0500, Paul Burchard wrote:
>> If you have concerns about application level proxies in
>> general or our solution specifically, then please raise
>> them on this list rather than emailing me directly so that
>> we can all participate in the discussion.
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>
>Just a quick question -- could you clarify if authors of interactive
>pages (POST FORMs) need to do anything in order to prevent unintended
>caching in this system?  Or is this handled automatically?  Thanks!

The FORM itself could be cached depending on the settings on the proxy
server for a site as could the results, but in general, the *results*
wouldn't be cached because results wouldn't have Last-modified or Expires
meta-information and the default caching time for HTTP results without
those meta-fields is 0. I'm currently experimenting with a default
expiration of 15 minutes to an hour or so, to see if it makes a difference
to users.

ka