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

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Mon, 9 Dec 2002 17:37:27 EST


> Robert wrote
>
> I did (answer the question). The paragraph I acked is 100% correct. 
> Squid will cache and revalidate before serving responses with Expires: -1.
>
> Rob

Roger that.
Thank you one more time.

My bad... It took 2 reads to realize you were 'Acking' the entire
statement and not just the second part.

All I can say is... there a LOT of people who don't know this.

It is SOP to send "Expires: -1" if you want to 'stop a document
from being cached by anyone". Very few people realize that
it's actually getting written to disk anywhere because it would
apparently violate the "principle of least astonishment" to 
think otherwise.

Yours
Kevin