[thelist] Avoiding Downstream Caching from AJAX Request

Mark Groen evolt at markgroen.com
Mon Feb 18 11:27:10 CST 2008


On February 18, 2008 8:56:40 am Volkan Özçelik wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> >Am I correct in saying that including the following HTTP request header
> >will ensure that downstream caching is *not* performed for this
> >resource?
>
> Well I'm not sure about IE.

Works in IE too, part of the spec (see #section-3.4 also):

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2396#section-3.3

Handy for showing clients new content/layouts etc. too by simply appending the 
css/html names.

http://mysite.com/index.html?version=new
-- 
cheers,

	Mark



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