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HTTP 1.1 caching directives for dummies and caching problems for old versions of Internet Explorer.
1 Comment · Posted by LizetP in caching, HTTP, IE6 and IE5
The reason why I published this link is because a coworker had a problem with viewing a PDF on IE6 when the cache was set to no-store over https.
The problem does not happen with Internet Explorer 7 or above or with FireFox, but the old IEs fail to retrieve the files when the cache directive is no-store or no-cache.
More of this on:
Internet Explorer file downloads over SSL do not work with the cache control headers
Unable to Open or Run Files if “Cache-Control: No Store” Header Set
and
Prevent caching when you download active documents over SSL
And another good reading on Caches on the web:
Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
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Dallas Erby · April 11, 2010 at 4:18 AM
thanks for the great post