On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 22:32 +0300, Ghiora Drori wrote:
> In the following RFC :
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
> It says the browser can be told NOT to cache the page.

No, it doesn't. Read:

> 
> quote:14.9.1 What is Cacheable
> ......
> private
>     Indicates that all or part of the response message is intended for a
> single user and MUST NOT be cached by a shared cache. This allows an
> origin server to state that the specified parts of the
>     response are intended for only one user and are not a valid response
> for requests by other users. A private (non-shared) cache MAY cache the
> response.

> I would assume an email server would use it. Anyone know if yahoo email
> does? Anyone know if IE5 does respond properly. fRom What I can see it
> does not.

I don't understand why you think IE5 does not respond properly. You have
to remember that the cache used by a browser is of the "private
(non-shared)" type and hence may store pages marked as "private". The
only type of cache that may not store private pages is a web proxy's
cache.

-- 

Oded


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