RE: Cacheing "CGI requests"

Hi
Unfortunately I cannot set the "Expires Header" because the
result from the CGI requests "expires" when the input files to
the request changes, and these files can change at any time
(or "never")

Kjell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Rompf [mailto:srompf@telemation.de]
> Sent: 13. oktober 1998 13:59
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: RE: Cacheing "CGI requests"
>
>
> At 09:45 13.10.98 +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
> >1. the CGI must produce a 'Last-Modified' header
> >2. the CGI must determine when an If-Modified-Since request is made, and
> >respond appropriately (304 Not Modified)
>
> I prefer another way: Setting the Expires-Header should do and allows you
> to tell cache and browsers exactly how long the response is valid instead
> of relying on heuristics that have been designed with static documents in
> mind (or not at all, when looking at some popular browsers ;-)
>
> cu.. Stefan
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Received on Wed Oct 14 1998 - 00:46:39 MDT