Here's a worst-case scenario you send it to IE and somewhere along the line it picks up a Vary header.

IE won't store anything in it's cache with a Vary header - not even downloaded files. So it downloads the file then deletes it.

You can't save it elsewhere or retrieve it!

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=824847

(By the way it exhibits the same behaviour if you send proper no-cache headers.)

So as far as the server is concerned, your logs are concerned, and anything else you are concerned that file has been delivered to the client successfully. As far as the user is concerned you may as well not have bothered as the browser's eaten the download.

Carl


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