[1874] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Mon Apr 22 20:12:18 1996
To: chris@sandpiper.com
CC: jsw@netscape.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Chris Newton's message of Mon, 22 Apr 1996 11:11:22 -0700 <9604221811.AA21171@sandy.sandpiper.com>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 12:44:53 PDT
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Whatever might or might not work with a particular version of
Netscape, the direction in the HTTP working group has been to separate
out "cache" from "history", and to note that the HTTP headers that
affect caching, such as you might get with:
> <HEAD>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
> </HEAD
don't affect history.
The original request was a desire to have some way to affect history
(".. if the user walks away, someone else walking up wouldn't see the
same page using the <back> button ...")
- Larry
