I can confirm seeing this on drinkd's browser. I'm the other PerlMonk in question. The first time he accesses the site each day, he sees a cached version of the site as seen from within my account.

We did experiment enough to verify that he couldn't actually use my account to post or vote, but it's still a little disturbing that he could see, for example, my personal messages.

One point I will note is that he's not clicking the "Remember me" checkbox when he logs in (he prefers to log in each day). This could be relevant. It also means that theoretically any Anonymous Monk in my company could be viewing my account on a daily basis!

I assume that our company's proxy server is caching things over-aggresively. Isn't there some way to circumvent this?

Update: I should be more explicit about something that drinkd alluded to. We work at a large corporation with a corporate IT group that is never ever going to bother reconfiguring the gateway solely for our PerlMonks viewing pleasure. This leads us to hope that the answer lies elsewhere. What we're wondering is: Should PerlMonks be using something like an Expires: header? Is it already doing this?

buckaduck

In reply to Re: Page Expiration by buckaduck
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