> We are running some tests over here, trying to get AOL to cache *anything*
> of ours. We can't do it. Once the client-side caching in the browser is
> disabled, every request made through AOL comes to our servers.
> Whether it's
> cfm pages with no-cache headers, .cfm pages w/o no-cache headers, images,
> htm pages with query strings, htm pages without query strings,
> they all come
> up the most recent versions (and we've put together some pretty agressive
> tests for that)
>
> We are doing this testing because we have been warned before on this list
> that we can't trust AOL's statement that it never caches pages
> containing a
> question mark or pages with no-cache headers. We wanted to test
> to make sure
> our headers worked, but since we can't even get the control group of pages
> to cache, it's a little hard to test.
>
> So the weird question of the day: Does anybody know how we can
> get AOL *to* cache pages of ours . . .
The simplest answer is not to use ? and & in the URL
Start using / (and either / = or . as the name/value separator)
Fusebox has a function to do this, or a simple bit of code will handle it
Philip Arnold
Director
Certified ColdFusion Developer
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
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