RE: Overriding Pragma: no-cache from servers

From: Dave J Woolley <DJW@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:05:26 +0100

> From: David S. Madole [SMTP:david@omdev.com]
>
> I see by looking at the code that objects with a "Pragma: no-cache" tag
> are made unconditionally non-cacheable, even though that's not a valid
> header coming from a server. I would like to be able to override this,
>
        To see why this sort of thing is dangerous, see Microsoft's
        very recent security alert at:

        http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/MS99-035.asp

        but note that they should use Cache-Control: private to get
        the best results from HTTP 1.1 caches.
Received on Mon Sep 13 1999 - 08:35:01 MDT

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