On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, andrew khoo wrote:
more aggressive caching techniques would necessitate that the tags be ignored anyway, and the "dynamic" content would still be cached. expires etc are only useful if the caching box decides to honour them.
The tags are usually ignored by default - the html tags I mean - unless itis parsed into http most caches will ignore it and you do have a problem. The majority of caches I've seen have a built exclusion for the usual "always dynamic" items - cgi, "?" in path, asp... .
some of the content providers in the US would turn over in their graves if they knew what people who pay heaps more $$$ for traffic are doing to their web sites :). we have done some funky stuff with content (read: caching of dynamic pages, even .asps, "tokenized" HTML, dropping realaudio UDP etc etc etc).
Yup - you folk in Australiaview caching as the norm - not the enemy. Go figure... -- I am nothing if not net-Q! - ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net