[11346] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Tracking hits without cache-busting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor)
Tue Jun 29 12:13:07 1999
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:11:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor" <roconnor@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Reply-To: roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
To: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990629220737.030b4460@melb1.kestral.com.au>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Grahame Grieve wrote:
> >That is not a bug in IE5, that is the exact behavior required by the
> >standard. Back is supposed to show the old page you have seen before,
> >not fetch a new copy. See for example section 13.13 of rfc2616.
>
> but this is obtuse to a user. why should a user perceive
> any difference between a page they got from going back
> and a page they got from going forward? In highly dynamic
> web applications this caching of back business is a big problem with
> the http standard
HTML was designed to serve up more or less static pages. One souce of
information per URL. Anything dynamic that has been added on is a cheap
hack. You are very lucky that anything dynamic works at all. If you
want to serve dynamic data, I suggest using Java applet in your page.
Then you can be as dynamic as you want.
--
Russell O'Connor roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<URL:http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
``And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message''
-- Anindita Dutta, ``The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy''
