On Fri 26 Mar 2004, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I've been looking round on a phpbb forum, and I noticed that the
> > "current time" as reported on the main page wasn't being updated.
> > I then found that I wasn't seeing new posts on the forum, because
> > wwwoffle is apparently aggressively caching these.
> 
> Which is what WWWOFFLE is good at - breaking the HTTP specification so
> that it can be more aggresive at caching to save download time (and
> money).

Understandable, of course... although for some sites it can be a pain.


> For the 'Cache-Control: max-age=0' header you can use the
> request-expired option (default=no):
> 
> <http://forum.gps.nl/*> request-expired = yes
> 
> For the 'Pragma: no-cache' header you can use the request-no-cache
> option (default=no):
> 
> <http://forum.gps.nl/*> request-no-cache = yes

Ah, indeed this works fine.
I should try to learn the config file more thouroughly :-(


Thanks,
Paul Slootman

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