[2769] in WWW Security List Archive
Re:A problem with Navigator's cache
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Ray)
Thu Aug 22 22:31:11 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:17:42 -0800
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
From: daver@idiom.com (David Ray)
Cc: Ian Dunkin <imd1707@ggr.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
At 2:31 PM 8/22/96, you wrote:
> [snip...]
> Is there any way that the server can tell Navigator that it is not
> allowed to cache a certain document at all?
Use the HTTP header:
Pragma: no-cache
This causes Navigator to (1) not cache the page in memory so it doesn't
display when clicking "back", (2) not to cache POST data in the fat-db
file.
Works on secure and unsecure documents.
-Dave
