On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 05:45:06PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Package: iceweasel > Version: 2.0.0.9-1 > Severity: important > > Downloading a PDF > (http://martin-krafft.net/cv/cv_martin-f-krafft.en.pdf) from > a server without an Expires: tag in the HTTP response causes > iceweasel to cache the object. Thanks! > > After changing the PDF on the server and trying to download it again > via iceweasel, doesn't even bother asking the server for > a modification date but just serves the document straight from > cache. > > Given how it's not possible to do ctlr-shift-r for downloads, this > means that it's effectively impossible to circumvent iceweasel's > cache for downloads. This is broken.
FWIW, as a workaround, you can change the value of the browser.cache.check_doc_frequency preference. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.check_doc_frequency I do agree, though, that the default behaviour of considering documents without Expires header as never expiring to be painful for downloaded documents, thus leaving this (and upstream) bug opened. Cheers, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
