Re: Prevent caching of pdf files

Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.programming
Message-ID <[email protected]>
bsec wrote:

> As we have no control over the client machines accessing
> our application, is there another way to prevent pdf files from being
> automatically stored on the clients without using the no-cache header?

Providing an Expires: header with the current time should prevent
cached copies from being used. But, as always, the server has no way
to force the client to behave in a particular way.

It might help to explain exactly why you consider caching to be a
security issue.

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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