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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 20:12:37 +0200
From: Eli Marmor <marmor@netmask.it>
Organization: Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mod_cache, expand impact of CacheIgnoreCacheControl
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Sander Striker wrote:
> 
> Eli Marmor wrote:
> [...]
> > CacheForOffline?  (or Cache4Offline)
> >
> > Offline browsing is the main case where you need such absolute caching.
> > But it requires you to cache EVERYTHING. Including dynamic content, and
> > even different content according to different POST input. Maybe two
> > directives are needed, one for using the cache only if the cookies are
> > the same.
> >
> > All of that requires changing the caching mechanism to keep POST input,
> > cookies, etc.
> 
> I think you just proved Justins point.  Above is all about response
> Cache-Control.  The current CacheIgnoreCacheControl only affects request
> Cache-Control.  Confuzzled yet ;) :)
> 
> Sander

If I recall correctly, there were MANY conditions in mod_cache that
prevented caching (like checking for a POST method, no-store, no-cache,
auth, GET args, private, public, must-revalidate, maxage, etc.).

My idea was to have one directive, with an option for each of them,
including the conditions that are already supported, plus two special
options - one that represents the empty set of options, and one that
turns on all of the options.

-- 
Eli Marmor
marmor@netmask.it
Netmask (El-Mar) Internet Technologies Ltd.
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