> On Sep 2, 2022, at 7:54 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Yes, indeed... (the cache issue again), sorry. > using Firefox 104.0.1 under NixOS
On Sat, Sep 3, 2022 at 6:01 AM Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > Interesting. > > Lately for compatibility reasons, I’ve been using Firefox (104.0.1) > more for stuff on macOS. I have not noticed an issue. If it has been > a little while since I visited a page (like on the download repo), > it will automatically refresh it. However, if I visit one of those > pages, push an update and go pack to that page, the old data is > displayed. Because of normal caching, it is expected. I’ll just > click the refresh button and it will fetch the new page. FWIW, you can also Shift-Reload to force Firefox to load a new page, overriding cache. That is, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and click the Reload button. (The keyboard shortcut is Shift-Ctrl-R.) > I’m far from an expert on FireFox. Perhaps there is a setting that > is causing your browser to not automatically update the page (even > when it has been a month since your last visit). I did a few experiments with the FreeDOS website (www.freedos.org), the FreeDOS Files Archive (ibiblio.org) and Jerome's website (lod.bz). Ibiblio doesn't set a preferred cache time, the other two do. I understand that without a cache directive from the web server, cache store length is up to the client - making a guess (based on Paul's experience), maybe Firefox tries to hold onto the cache for a very long time. examples: The FreeDOS website sets a cache age of 600 seconds (10 minutes): > Cache-Control: max-age=600 Ibiblio doesn't include cache directives: [full server response] > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 11:34:35 GMT > Server: Apache > Last-Modified: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:57:25 GMT > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 14944 > Vary: Accept-Encoding > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Jerome's site says "caches of any kind (private or shared) should not store this response" (no-store) but that is overriden by "the response can be stored in caches, but the response must be validated with the origin server before each reuse" (no-cache). And "the response can be stored in caches and can be reused while fresh" (must-revalidate). > Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 more info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Cache-Control _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
