29-May-2003 08:06 Doug Kaufman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 May 2003, Ian Collier wrote:

>> But I've already got the document - if anything was confidential then
>> it's too late!  No one else is going to see it if it's only cached in
>> memory.

> But it isn't only cached to memory. SOURCE_CACHE can be set to "FILE".
> If we are to cache secure documents, we should make sure that the file
> is as secure as is reasonably possible.

Yes. But while we are talking to https the secure content is _usually_ sent
in a single direction, from client to server (POST data, with passwords
etc.), so it will not be compromised by source_cache. Though it is perfectly
valid to send secure content in the other direction...

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