Milt writes:
> By my understanding of the format required of the date in the Expires
> header, this is not in the right format.  Here's what I use:
>
>    resp.setHeader("Expires", "Mon, 01 Jan 1990 06:00:01 GMT");
>
> It has to use that format for all the components of the date, and it
> has to use GMT.  You don't have to use that specific date :-).
>
> I use this and the Pragma and Cache-Control headers as you have above,
> and it works for me (in my limited testing) to prevent caching.

     I just tried it with this format and the browser still offers to
repost the arguments (and does so, successfully).  Maybe I should be
taking the opposite tack - keeping the page in the cache and adding
javascript so when you back up to it, it immediately skips you back to
the preceding page.

Steven J. Owens
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