[Mod_gzip] "mod_gzip_send_vary=Yes" disables caching on IE? (1.3.26.1a)

[Slava Bizyayev]

Sorry for typo: I meant

header("Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2002 05:28:43 GMT");
header("Vary: *");
header("Expires: Tuesday, 10-December-2002 10:00:00 GMT");
echo "Hi";

Thanks,
Slava

----- Original Message -----
From: "Slava Bizyayev" <sbizyaye@outlook.net>
To: <mod_gzip@lists.over.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Mod_gzip] "mod_gzip_send_vary=Yes" disables caching on IE?
(1.3.26.1a)


> OK, it's interesting...
> Let's try one more thing:
>
> header("Sun, 08 Dec 2002 05:28:43 GMT");
> header("Vary: *");
> header("Expires: Tuesday, 10-December-2002 10:00:00 GMT");
> echo "Hi";
>
> Thanks,
> Slava
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jordan Russell" <jr-list-mod_gzip@quo.to>
> To: <mod_gzip@lists.over.net>
> Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 9:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mod_gzip] "mod_gzip_send_vary=Yes" disables caching on IE?
> (1.3.26.1a)
>
>
> > "Slava Bizyayev" wrote:
> > > When you wish to control the client side cache you would consider to
> > provide
> > > the appropriate Expires header first. You can set the lifetime of your
> > > response in client's cache up to 1 year. This client will never bother
> you
> > > again until the expiration date (unless the user hits the Refresh
button
> > > earlier).
> >
> > ...except in the case where there's a Vary header but no
> "Content-Encoding:
> > gzip" header, it seems.
> >
> > In my tests, IE 6 will cache this OK:
> >
> > header("Expires: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT");
> > echo "Hi";
> >
> > IE won't cache the following, though -- it acts as if the Expires header
> > isn't there. (Note: I cleared my browser cache before doing this test.)
> >
> > header("Vary: Content-Encoding");
> > header("Expires: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT");
> > echo "Hi";
> >
> > (Again, by "won't cache" I mean the page gets reloaded on every visit,
> even
> > when you pass by it using the Back/Forward buttons in the browser.)
> >
> > But then, as usual, if I add in gzip encoding, IE caches the page just
> fine:
> >
> > header("Content-Encoding: gzip");
> > header("Vary: Content-Encoding");
> > header("Expires: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT");
> > echo gzencode("Hi");
> >
> > Jordan Russell
> >
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