Re: caching "dynamic" content

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 11:49:43 +0900

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> > Will what I've done above actually stop storing the data entirely, or will
> > it try revalidating it every request? Is there really a difference?
>
> It will stop caching, at lest unless there is an ETag or Last-Modified.

Ok good!

> Note: The RFC do not forbid caching, only to consider the response fresh
> without explicit expiry time or validation. So it's fine.

> However, there is still the HTTP/1.0 "MUST NOT cache" requirement. Not
> really an idea what that's about however.

If people -are- returning freshness info in a ? URL then its entirely
possible they've got clue, right? Or not?

Adrian

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