Return-Path: owner-new-httpd Received: by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) id QAA13562; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:27:22 -0700 Received: from ooo.lanl.gov by taz.hyperreal.com (8.6.12/8.6.5) with ESMTP id QAA13556; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 16:27:21 -0700 Received: by ooo.lanl.gov (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA019998011; Thu, 13 Jul 1995 17:26:51 -0600 From: Rob Hartill Message-Id: <199507132326.AA019998011@ooo.lanl.gov> Subject: Re: Pragma: no-cahce Roy ? To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 17:26:51 MDT In-Reply-To: <199507132307.TAA09458@beach.w3.org>; from "Roy Fielding" at Jul 13, 95 7:07 pm X-Organization: Theoretical Division, T-8. Los Alamos National Laboratory X-Snail: LANL Theoretical Divi' T-8, MS B285, P.O Box 1663, Los Alamos NM 87545 X-Marks-The-Spot: Doh ! X-Url: http://nqcd.lanl.gov/~hartill/ X-Cessive-Use-Of-Headers: check Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.85] Sender: owner-new-httpd@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org > >In addition to the "i-m-s", Netscape also sends "Pragma: no-cache" > >which he says should be read by the client as a "gimme a fresh copy" > >He therefore blaims servers for this Netscape problem. > > He is absolutely and irretrievably wrong. "Pragma: no-cache" has > no meaning whasoever to an origin server. > > ....Roy T. Fielding Department of ICS, University of California, Irvine USA I think they've finally seen the light on this problem now. rob (in need of a spell-checker)