No caching?

andargor · 23rd February 2005, 01:40 AM

I was wondering why caching is turned off. I would seem that would alleviate some load on the server?

From some headers I sniffed:

This is an image, one thing that should always be cached.

Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:31:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.31 (Unix) PHP/4.3.7
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.7
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: private, max-age=0, no-cache
Content-Length: 43
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=94
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: image/gif

This is in the page HTML. Cache-Control is set to "private" for the page's HTTP, so shouldn't the browser be allowed to cache instead of telling it not to?

Code:

        <!-- no cache headers -->
        <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
        <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />
        <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
        <!-- end no cache headers -->

Just a thought...

Andargor

andargor · 25th February 2005, 10:37 PM

This morning I could see all the little background images load one by one. Is this normal?

BTW, feel free to say "Andargor, stop bugging us with this, there are more important things to look at, like Search".

Andargor

**Piratecat** · 26th February 2005, 02:56 PM

No, keep bugging us. I just don't know the answer.