Re: "Uncacheable" documents getting cached...

From: John Sloan <johns@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:43:23 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, John Sloan wrote:
>
> > The simplistic solution might work. Just reset the timestamp of any
> > object which would have negative age such that it has zero age. I can't
> > see any obvious problems with that at the moment.
>
> You will start getting false 304 replies to IMS requests (resulting in stale
> objects being served) if you alter the date supplied be the server.
>
> Alex.

Mmm, yes.

Simpler yet then. Don't cache pages with negative age, just proxy them.

John
Received on Tue Nov 10 1998 - 09:52:18 MST

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