[thelist] good practice META tags?

Keith Davis cache at dowebs.com
Thu May 24 09:41:15 CDT 2001


deke wrote:

> > <meta http-equiv= "pragma" content="no-cache">
> 
> That's not a legal use of pragma. Pragma is for headers sent
> *to* the server *by* the client, not from the server to the client.

What browsers does the pragma meta tag NOT work in? 

And if "Pragma is for headers sent *to* the server *by* the client, not
from the server to the client" is true, then why does sending
print "Pragma: no-cache\n"; 
from a server keep the page out of the cache?

keith




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