[thelist] Is server-side browser-sniffing a bad idea? and Cache Tutorial
Ben Gustafson
ben_gustafson at lionbridge.com
Fri Dec 7 08:25:04 CST 2001
> > BTW, this is a bit of a bummer, since sending a page
> > tailored to the browser is preferable to sending a page
> > full of JavaScript browser detection "ifs".
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>
> and doing object/method support detection is preferable to
> both methods above and isn't affected by this proxy
> caching scenario.
Jeff, could you elaborate more on what object/method support detection is?
> I recommend reading this cache tutorial:
>
> http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/
>
> 1. Using <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> is wrong.
>
> 2. You can send a "Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"
> and/or Expires HTTP header.
Matt, many thanks for this URL. Would "Cache-Control: no-cache, proxy-revalidate" be more
focused for dealing with the proxy caching issue?
--Ben
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