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Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Sun Apr 21 19:10:11 1996

Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:04:59 -0700
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Reply-To: jsw@netscape.com
To: Will Day <willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu>
CC: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

Will Day wrote:
> Would this work:
>         <HEAD>
>         <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
>         </HEAD

  That should work with Netscape Navigator.  It will prevent the
document from ever being written to the Disk Cache.  You can also
just send the "Pragma: no-cache" header as part of the HTTP response
with the document.

	--Jeff

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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