Re: Caching of redirected pages

From: Jon Kay <jkay@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:30:32 +0000

> Now - once they are authenticated, and they request www.cisco.com again,
> they _still_ get the username/password page because it is cached.
> Obviously, if they request any other page, they get what they asked for.
>
> I'd appreciate any ideas as to how I can redirect to this
> username/password page while specifying that it is not to be cached.

There are two possibilities. You can write your username/password page
to be uncacheable. Or you can send a PURGE request to the cache once
authentication succeeds. The first is probably simpler/better, since
hopefully you won't get enough retries for caching to help the unauthenticated.

                                                Jon
Received on Fri Jun 25 1999 - 04:32:56 MDT

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