Re: IE not sending correct refresh header?

Owen Fairfield wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am kind of new to this newsgroup so pardon me if this is a misplaced
> question. I read through the squid faq and did not see any questions
> that would appear to relate to this problem I am having.
>
> I am running version 2.1 of squid as a caching server on IRIX 6.51.
> Squid is running in front of the apache web server on port 80.
>
> The problem I am having is that if I am in netscape and hit reload, the
> access.log shows a TCP_MEM_MISS and grabs the page off the server
> instead of cache, which is correct, however, if I am in IE4.0 or 5.0 and
> hit refresh, access.log shows a TCP_MEM_HIT, and loads the page out of
> cache instead of grabbing a fresh copy from the server. It appears that
> when the user hits reload on Netscape squid recognizes it fine, but when
> someone on IE hits refresh it isn't recognizing a 'reload' or 'no-cache'
> being sent.
>
> Has anyone ran into this problem before?

Yep. MSIE doesn't send appropriate headers when doing a refresh. Known,
reported, ignored. I think I reported this bug they day MSIE 4.0 came
out...quite some time ago now.

D
Received on Fri Jul 16 1999 - 19:07:38 MDT