The only thing I can think of is to give them a lot of bad press, but with
all the reasons for their to be bad press about AOL it either isn't getting
noticed by the media or it isn't having any effect on the customers. As
long as their customers think this isn't a problem or think the problem is
with our sites and not with AOL, AOL won't change this.
At 08:06 PM 5/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>If this is true, this is a huge problem. How do we get this
>addressed?
>
>Kevin
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/03/00 04:02PM >>>
>What AOL says, and what they actually do, are two completely different
>things. Not only do they cache pages with URL variables, they cache
>form
>submissions, cookies and HTTP authentication headers. I've had several
>of my
>dynamic sites compromised in this way, and in one case had a serious
>security violation caused by their caching of the HTTP authentication
>headers.
>
>AOL is not a good neighbor, and they do not act in good faith.
>
>Michael J. Sheldon
>Internet Applications Developer
>Phone: 480.699.1084
>http://www.desertraven.com/
>PGP Key Available on Request
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MATTHEW EHRENS [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 15:18
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [RE: AOL and Caching]
>
>
>
>AOL does not cache objects containing a Question Mark. This is
>checked
>first,
>regardless of file extension / mime type. Most CFM's fall under this
>category
>... however, your root page will probably not: ie:
>http://www.company.com/
>....
>
>Other than that, you can use those Cache-Control Headers Michael
>Sheldon
>mentioned below. You really should only need Cache-Control Headers
>for
>objects that don't contain question marks...
>
>More details on AOL's caching at:
>
>http://webmaster.info.aol.com/index.cfm?article=12
>
>Thanks,
>Matt
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>"Mike Sheldon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The following has worked for me in preventing AOL from caching dynamic
>pages. Note that this must be included in ALL pages you do not wish to
>be
>cached. (I like to put it in Application.cfm)
>
><CFSET gmts = gettimezoneinfo()>
><CFSET gmt = gmts.utcHourOffset>
><CFIF gmt EQ 0>
> <CFSET gmt = "">
><CFELSEIF gmt GT 0>
> <CFSET gmt = "+" & gmt >
></CFIF>
><CFHEADER NAME="Pragma" VALUE="no-cache">
><CFHEADER NAME="Cache-Control" VALUE="no-cache, must-revalidate">
><CFHEADER NAME="Last-Modified" VALUE="#dateformat(now(), 'ddd, dd mmm
>yyyy')# timeformat(now(), 'HH:mm:ss') GMT#gmt#">
><CFHEADER NAME="Expires" VALUE="Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT">
>
>Michael J. Sheldon
>Internet Applications Developer
>Phone: 480.699.1084
>http://www.desertraven.com/
>PGP Key Available on Request
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Skip Ogden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 18:55
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: AOL and Caching
>
>
>I searched the archives (or should I say struggled through them) and
>found
>nothing.
>
>Is there something I need to know regarding CF and AOL? AOL seems to
>be
>caching templates and serving them instead of pulling up the latest
>and
>greatest.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Skip Ogden
>
>
>
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