[99303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Satchell)
Sun Sep 16 10:56:02 2007
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 07:40:12 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <list@satchell.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <49C1BEB7-E9CD-4D35-BB78-E6AC015BB6B2@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> Does browser caching still work these days? I thought all web admins
> disabled it on their servers because they can't be bothered to think
> about which cache directives to send along with each page. I can rarely
> return to a previously viewed page without the browser hitting the
> network, in any event.
Actually, browser caching is a function of the Web design tags, not the
server. So, the decision to allow caching is on the page creator. On
my own sites, I leave caching to the default unless there is a good
reason to disable caching. One site I used to run, a warranty form
processor, I disabled all caching -- at all levels -- because it was a
database-driven site allowing updates from multiple people at the same
time, so caching was highly inappropriate.
Caching use to bite me regularly when I was doing customer support.
Which led to the mantra "Clear the cache!"