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Re: Client Caching -- Was: Re: Network Abuse by Netscape?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Kilburg)
Mon Oct 31 04:51:56 1994
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 10:41:27 +0100
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From: John Kilburg <john@cephas.ISRI.UNLV.EDU>
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>>[stuff about client caching]
>
> It's a good idea to cache document, but warning some documents are
>protected : don't store these documents in the cache with a mode "644"
>
> Also, I like give an "username/password" when I access a protected
>document for the first time, even if the document is in the cache.
>
>Guy Decoux
I saw your comments about chimera (Brian B. sent them to me)...chimera
1.61 and above no longer caches documents that require authentication.
This was not the smartest thing to do but it is safer and easy.
-john
