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The real problem, according to Lafon, is that with HTTPS you lose the ability to cache. I'm fairly certain this is false, unless they're talking about proxy c
by tghw 16y ago
The real problem, according to Lafon, is that with HTTPS you lose the ability to cache.
I'm fairly certain this is false, unless they're talking about proxy caching. Normal browser caching works equally well in HTTPS as it does in HTTP.
- jedsmith 16y agoThe leading browsers were fairly stubborn on caching SSL resources for a while -- specifically to disk -- but (I think) most of them now obey the magic words: Cache-control: public Some data here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/174348/will-web-browsers-cache-content-over-https http://stackoverflow.com/questions/174348/will-web-browsers-... I'm interested in what the state of this is, myself, but I know that one of IE 9's improvements was HTTPS conditional requests.
- justinludwig 16y ago> unless they're talking about proxy caching I'm fairly certain that's what he's talking about. A) He's Yves Lafon, and B) when you're talking web architecture, you care very much about what intermediaries can do.