[14479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Web caching liability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Fri Jan 2 13:30:05 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 02 Jan 1998 12:37:16 GMT."
<199801021737.MAA22535@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 10:24:31 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> they've been problems for a long time; some of their proxy servers
> hold cache data for far too long. i have some web discussion pages
> that are effectively useless for aol subscribers because aol even
> caches cgi generated stuff with obvious cgi related extensions like
> ".cgi" and ".pl".
nowhere in the standards is ".pl" recommended to be treated as an
implicit Cache-Control:. if you tag your responses with Cache-Control:
headers that make them do what you want (in this case, make the response
uncacheable) then you won't have the above-described problem.
