RE: Cookies and cache
Vinod Valloppillil (vinodv@microsoft.com)
Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:08:06 -0800
Microsoft's proxy caches responses from requests with cookie headers if
no cache-control / Expires / pragma: no-cache / etc. is present in the
response.
We've been operating this way since October and have seen no problems
with it...
Vinod Valloppillil
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Daviel [SMTP:andrew@andrew.Triumf.CA]
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 1997 12:48 PM
To: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Subject: Cookies and cache
OK, so I haven't read every piece of mail on this list ...
Can someone answer this simple question:
If I make a request for a page with a Cookie header, is the
result
cacheable in a public cache ?
e.g. I pick up a cookie with path=/ from some org, then
get a GIF (which has no Set-Cookie, Expires now, Cache-control,
etc.),
can it be cached ?
I think I had misunderstood the mechanism somewhat; if I want to
use
the cookie in a page, should I make that page uncacheable with
Expires,
Cache-Control, etc. ??
Andrew