Bradley Baetz wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 11:49:21 +0100, Jonas J�rgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Darin Fisher wrote: > >> > >> Back/Forward should honor <meta> tags that specify the equivalent of > >> 'Cache-control: no-cache' If not, then it's a bug. > > > > It should not! The HTTP/1.1 spec says: > > > <snip> > > I agree, and I don't think that what darin is saying is correct. I haven't > tested, recently, however. Back/forward should not talk to the server with > no-cache, IIRC. One thing we don't do is restore form elemnts on > back/forward with no-cache, though, mainly for compatability with IE. > > For no-store, we do not keep it for session history. Whilst the spec says > that we can, sites expect that we don't. These sites don't want people to > be able to go back to view any username and password data saved in session > history.
The spec doesn't say that we can - it says that we SHOULD. /Jonas
