Re: Request for comments: changing the cache control headers

Neil Schemenauer <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:05:08 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.quixote.user,gmane.comp.python.qp
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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 09:08:50AM +0100, Massa, Harald Armin wrote:
> I experienced similiar problems with expires: -1 just recently.
> 
> Crazy thing: that applications have been in duty for > 6 years; and
> suddenly expires: -1 did not prevent caching anymore. With browsers
> IE7, IE8 and Firefox.
> 
> What DID help was expires: 0

Is it possible for you to test with

    Expires: -1
    Cache-Control: max-age=0, must-revalidate

I'd rather not change the Expires header at this point (cargo cult
programming, I know).

> I had to fix it in a rush; would be interested if expires: 0 instead
> expires: -1 is a change that also resonates with your usage.

Yes but I'm not sure I can test it though since it's a customer
behind a corporate firewall.

Regards,

  Neil