[1875] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pierre-Yves Bonnetain)
Tue Apr 23 06:40:21 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 96 09:35:41 +0100
From: pyb@silogic.fr (Pierre-Yves Bonnetain)
To: hawes@scus1.CTSTATEU.EDU
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <3177ACC9.2BC3@scus1.ctstateu.edu> (message from Daryl Hawes on Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:10:01 -0500)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
I would propose another (different) scheme. Usually, browsers do not cache data
resulting from a POST operation.
So write a small cgi wrapper around your sensitive HTML files, that reads them and send
them back to the browser. This sould be easy, and it may well solve your problem.
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-+-+ Pierre-Yves BONNETAIN (aka Pyb)
Consultant Internet
