Re: Cache-Control: no-store

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Bjarne <[email protected]> wrote:
> [ Forwarded from a mail-thread on necko-devs.
> The topic is how to understand the http-header
> "Cache-Control: no-store". ]
>
> So, if I understand you both correctly, the
> expected behaviour is to not store such responses
> at all, not even in the mem-cache?

We have to store it in the memory cache so that view-source works
correctly. We just never reuse it.

> What about our nsIRequest.INHIBIT_PERSISTENT_CACHING
> flag? Should we allow responses to such requests to
> be stored in mem-cache?

Yes. That's how this flag is documented to work, and how would it
differ from INHIBIT_CACHING otherwise?

-christian