Re: [misterhouse-users] Web page caching problems

[Sean W. <li...@su...>]

Rick DeNatale wrote:
> It's been mentioned several times recently that there is often a need to
> ask the web browser to flush it's cache when viewing MH web pages. I've
> found for instance that I need to do this after the daily comics have
> been updated.
> 
> Why is this? Is the MH http server properly communicating the modified
> date?
This is because MH sets a VERY long page expiration time on static pages 
and comics/index.html is a static page, updated by the system 
periodically. I think we should should either shorten the expiration 
time to under 1,000,000 (I think that is what it is) or actually send 
proper HTTP headers with date/time stamps and let the browser determine 
the cache refresh time. I changed this at some time, but I can't 
remember where it is now.

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Sean Walker
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