Posted by Michael Winter on 06/08/05 01:00

On 07/06/2005 22:26, David Dorward wrote:

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> As far as I know, any proxy won't get to see the data in clear
> text, so it can't cache it for another local user.

It shouldn't need to see plaintext though, should it? Whether a cache
sends a stored or fresh copy depends upon other information: the
Cache-Control, Expires, Content-Length, ETag, and similar headers.

That said, I'm not totally sure either. Though the above is true for
HTTP, there might be other constraints for HTTPS, and I'm not going to
trawl for specifications now.

[snip]

Mike

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