On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> - disable negative caching for 401 and 403 responses >> Less ugly than the previous solution, and probably reasonably accurate. > > A whitelist of HTTP responses that are likely to be returned by a > functioning server is fine. The entire 4xx range isn't suitable though (in > particular because a lot of web servers return 404 when they're > malfunctioning). Given the small number of HTTP response codes, it shouldn't > be too hard to add a map of all potential response codes and the behavior > for each.
OK. Let's start with this policy: cache-control headers are respected for 200, 401, and 403 responses. cache-control headers are ignored for all other response codes. We can build up the policy as we go. Cheers, Brian
