[1881] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Newton)
Tue Apr 23 11:51:37 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 96 11:11:22 PDT
From: chris@sandpiper.com (Chris Newton)
To: jsw@netscape.com
Cc: www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.Rutgers.EDU
Jeff,
>
> 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.
>
just tried this from with a cgi script, the browser being the netscape
atlas preview release 1 navigator, and the file was written to disk cache.
Anything I should do to fix it?
