Re: caching dilemma

Kee Hinckley (nazgul@utopia.com)
Wed, 31 May 1995 22:27:59 +0500

At 4:53 PM 5/31/95, Koen Holtman wrote:
>You mean to say that the Netscape _browser_ disables its internal
>cacheing when receiving a pragma: no-cache in a form _response_?? That
>would be strange but wonderful, as the draft http spec defines this
>pragma to be an optional part of a client _request_ message.

That is the case. I confess that I don't know how I discovered it, but it
definitely turns off history caching in Netscape. Set it on a form, for
instance, and you don't have to worry about the user resubmitting it - if
they go back to it, it's been reloaded.

Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617/721-6100
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.