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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 08:31:21 -0800
From: Justin Erenkrantz <justin@erenkrantz.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mod_cache, expand impact of CacheIgnoreCacheControl
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 03:57:55AM +0100, Sander Striker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently CacheIgnoreCacheControl On only ignores Cache-Control: no-cache
> and Pragma: no-cache.  I'd like to add ignoring Cache-Control: max-age=...
> and Cache-Control: min-fresh=... as well.
> 
> This would give the admin more control, and would also make the directive
> slightly more intuitive IMO.  This because different browsers do different
> things.  One will send a Cache-Control: no-cache on a refresh, and one will
> send a Cache-Control: max-age=...  It would be nice if the effect would
> be the same for both.
> 
> Thoughts?

While I think this is a good idea, I'd like to consider renaming this
particular directive as I think the name is really confusing.  My concern is
that CacheIgnoreCacheControl only refers to the request's Cache-Control not
the origin response's Cache-Control header.  But, I like that separation
because having it refer to both is too coarse-grained, I think.

But, I don't have any real ideas for what an alternative name is.  -- justin