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Uhh, what caching advantage are you talking about? Everything that can be served cached over HTTP can also be served cached over HTTPS. Unless you are talking a
by Pharaoh2 11y ago
Uhh, what caching advantage are you talking about? Everything that can be served cached over HTTP can also be served cached over HTTPS. Unless you are talking about a caching proxy outside of the website control. In that case, they aren't needed, CDNs solved that problem in a much better way.
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> Unless you are talking about a caching proxy outside of the website control. In that case, they aren't needed, CDNs solved that problem in a much better way. There are still parts of the world where caching proxies are used to conserve limited transit bandwidth; CDNs don't solve that.
- paulddraper 11y ago"Everything that can be served cached over HTTP can also be served cached over HTTPS. " Only if you're taking about a browser cache. Any other cache couldn't intercept the data and cache it without alerting the browser (unless you mess around with installing SSL certs).