[Pmwiki-users] Suggestion for the sample-config.php

[Reimer Behrends]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:59:01PM -0700, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
[...]
> A question, though:  You said that "IE's handling of the
> 'Vary: Accept-Encoding' response header is to throw away its
> locally cached copy".  Does this mean that IE doesn't cache the
> page at all (i.e., "throws it away" immediately after displaying it), or 
> does it mean upon receiving a subsequent response with 
> "Vary: Accept-Encoding" IE invalidates its cached copy?

The former. IE displays the page and then throws it away without caching
it. See:

	http://lists.over.net/pipermail/mod_gzip/2002-December/006826.html

for all the ugly details.

			Reimer Behrends