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This is a good writeup, though I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the holy grail of caching with HTTP. That of course is good old RFC 2616: http://www.ietf.org/
by bitops 15y ago
This is a good writeup, though I'm surprised no-one has mentioned the holy grail of caching with HTTP. That of course is good old RFC 2616: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
There's an entire section in there devoted just to caching in HTTP. Very well worth reading in its entirety.
- d0mine 15y agohttp://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 adds errata, RFCs that update it and hyperlinks (it is a web after all) Direct link to Caching in HTTP http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-13 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-13