[8818] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
How Caches work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mary Morris)
Wed Aug 2 20:56:47 1995
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 17:52:21 +0800
From: marym@finesse.com (Mary Morris)
To: www-talk@w3.org
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> Furthermore the cache always sends IMS
> requests for non-image objects without Expires: headers, so you will be
> able to see individual requests. Their proxy does cache without sending
> IMS for all image/* type files for something like 6-12 hours, though I'm
> not sure if that can be defeated by abusing Expires: or Pragma: no-cache.
Can someone tell me which cache we are discussing here?
As far as I know, the Netscape Proxy/Cache server can be
configured to not check the currency of the file.
Mary
