Re: Caching returns from POST

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:00:48 +0000

Nottingham, Mark (Australia) wrote:

> HTTP 1.1 says that POST is cacheable with the approprate Cache-Control:
> headers, but I don't know of a proxy that will actually cache it (somebody
> prove me wrong?)

Problem is that it doesn't say how POST is cachable. Is the cachable
reply cachable for the URL, or is it URL+request body?

Because of this and other problems we have selected to ignore POST
caching even if theoretically allowed.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker
Received on Wed Jun 02 1999 - 01:10:28 MDT

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