Re: Different cache behavior with difference browsers?

From: Steve Snyder <swsnyder@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 01:28:51 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:57:31 -1000, Clifton Royston wrote:

>On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 06:37:57PM -0500, Steve Snyder wrote:
>> I'm running Communicator v4.61 under OS/2, version 4.61 under Win98
>> and version 4.7 under Linux. (All versions of Communicator are native
>> for each platform. There's no silly OS emulation involved.) What I'm
>> seeing is that a given page, when repeated accessed, results in
>> TCP_IMS_HIT under the OS/2 and Win98 browsers but TCP_MISS with the
>> Linux-based browser.
>>
>> Doing a tail on access.log, I see the action real-time. On page after
>> page, I see the Linux (v4.7) Communicator fail to get XXX_HITs that
>> are gotten with the other browsers on the same pages. I do get the
>> occasional HIT with the Linux version of Communicator, but nowhere
>> near the rate that I get with the same URLs under OS/2 and Win98.
>
>I think we saw discussion of a similar thing on this list some months
>back. The upshot was that the Linux version of Netscape sends extra
>Pragmas when you pick a site off your bookmarks list, whereas other
>versions don't. Effectively, under the Linux version, picking a
>bookmark is the same as shift-Refresh under all Netscape versions. (Or
>is it control-Refresh? I always forget.)

Yes, the URLs in question are being selected from the bookmark list.
 
Is there a way to work around this problem with Communicator/Linux?

Thanks.

*** Steve Snyder ***
Received on Sat Jan 22 2000 - 06:29:44 MST

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