[1864] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S.W. Cheung)
Mon Apr 22 02:38:11 1996
From: "S.W. Cheung" <swcheung@hkimd.cig.mot.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:03:01 +0800
In-Reply-To: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
"Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files" (Apr 21, 2:04pm)
To: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Apr 21, 2:04pm, Jeff Weinstein wrote:
> Subject: Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
> 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.
It seems it didn't work. I put the META statement in the HEAD section
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<TITLE> ... </TITLE>
</HEAD>
It ended up it I still could backup to that password-protected page
freely. I doubted if the page still in the cache, or the browser stored
my password in its cache.
Regards,
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