Re: MS IE 4 and http_accel

From: Dancer <dancer@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 08:50:08 +1100

Matthew Zito wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> We set squid up to act as a virtual accelerator for our heavily loaded web
> server. The problem became that Internet Explorer would not send a
> no-cache header to the server when you hit shift+reload, and so people
> couldn't see their changes. Netscape does it fine- just hold down shift
> and hit reload, and squid would re-fetch the pages. But IE will not do
> it. I found a reply to a post on dejanews that mentioned something about
> IE not sending a no-cache header no matter what unless there was a manual
> proxy configured. Is that true, and if so, has anyone found a workaround?

I reported this to M$ a couple years ago. No dice. AFAIK, no workaround
has ever shown up.

D
Received on Tue Mar 09 1999 - 14:34:58 MST

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