On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 20:23 -0200, Matthew Thomas wrote: > On 26 Oct, 2005, at 12:59 AM, Lee Revell wrote: > > ... > > It seems that if the site specifies a 5-minute refresh, as this one > > does, Firefox and Epiphany will do what it says and reload > > *everything* every 5 minutes. > > > > Maybe this is the "correct" behavior. But, IE is MUCH more aggressive > > about caching images which is good from the user POV. > > ... > > You can use Live HTTP Headers <http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/> in > Firefox to check what kind of caching headers a Web site is sending for > each image. >
drudgereport.com has a 4 minute META refresh. It's not really an issue of what the site is sending but whether we blithely go along with it. I would argue that if a Web site makes stupid requests (like forcing the exact same Yahoo News image to be reloaded from the server every 4 minutes) and we can use a heuristic to be fairly certain that it's the same object, that we should load the image from cache, against the site's wishes. This seems to be what IE does. Lee _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
