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Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (S.W. Cheung)
Mon Apr 22 04:38:52 1996

From: "S.W. Cheung" <swcheung@hkimd.cig.mot.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 14:21:10 +0800
In-Reply-To: Renegade <renegade@dnaco.net>
        "Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files" (Apr 21,  9:43pm)
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

On Apr 21,  9:43pm, Renegade wrote:
> Subject: Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
> At 12:41 PM 4/19/96 -0700, you wrote:
> >Set the Expire of the page to a few years ago...
> >
> 
>         To keep a browser from caching files set the
> cache size (memory and disk) to zero in the options.
> I know this can be done in Netscape, and probably
> many other browsers.
> 
> 
> --
> // renegade@dnaco.net
> // America Online sent me a great coaster for my
> // computer desk, it looks just like a CD-ROM!
> 
>-- End of excerpt from Renegade

Is there any other way (done on the server-side) to do it?



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