[1890] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: how do I keep a browser from caching files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David W. Morris)
Wed Apr 24 03:40:50 1996
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 22:14:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David W. Morris" <dwm@shell.portal.com>
To: Pierre-Yves Bonnetain <pyb@silogic.fr>
cc: hawes@scus1.CTSTATEU.EDU, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9604230835.AA10631@silogic.fr>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Tue, 23 Apr 1996, Pierre-Yves Bonnetain wrote:
> 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.
A word to the wise .... I have recently observed Netscape 2.0 give evidence
that it was caching the responses from POSTs ... as I recall I was asked if
I wanted to view the old response or have the POST repeated.
Dave Morris
