Re: WWWOFFLE Version 2.9-beta released
amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] (Andrew M. Bishop)
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Micha <[email protected]> writes: > | accidental, for example caching web pages that contain cookies > > I suspect cached cookies could confuse things in other ways too. > Hmmm...would it basically be possible to Don't Cache cookies or drop > them somehow, e.g. purge them, by some host based setting in the config ? Caching of cookies has always been a problem with WWWOFFLE which is why the subject has its own section in the FAQ. It is possible to block cookies using one of the CensorHeader options, this can be applied to all pages or only certain web sites. It is difficult to know what else could be done though. One option that I have been thinking about would be to always refresh pages that contain a Cookie in the request. This means that the Cookie header acts the same way that the 'Pragma: no-cache' or 'Cache-Control: no-cache' headers work and force a page reload (when online). If this was used along with careful Cookie blocking in the browser (only allowing cookies for sites that you want to allow to set them) then it would probably work. The problem would be when all requests contain cookies, having a local cache would not help speed up browsing. This solution would solve problems with websites that redirect from one page to another until the cookie gets set. Does this option sound useful? It would be fairly simple to add. -- Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew M. Bishop amb-Uxr6IM1mbv2TY6FTCsQk+9Bc4/[email protected] http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/ WWWOFFLE users page: http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html