You are right.
I stand corrected.
Ghiora

Oded Arbel wrote:
> 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.
> 


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