cache-busting document
Shel Kaphan (sjk@amazon.com)
Mon, 9 Jun 1997 11:56:05 -0700 (PDT)
Martin Hamilton writes:
>
> Don't use secure servers to serve images and other non-sensitive
> objects, since these will be uncacheable and may not be passed
> through a cache hierarchy.
>
Not a good recommendation: some browsers will put up a dialog box
whenever there's a reference from a secure page to a non-secure page,
including embedded references such as image URLs. This leads to a
fairly infuriating experience as a user, as multiple dialog boxes are
put up to display one page of results.