This brings up an interesting point. CGI scripts should never be cached by the browser. I believe most (all?) web servers, when serving up any CGI or dynamic (making use of SSI) content, will note a page with, like, an immediate Expires header, or some other mechanism to let the browser know that the page shouldn't be cached.

What if you want data to be cached? Is the best way to accomplish this to emit an Expires header of our own? What about If-Modified-Since-qualified requests? Do we then have to process those, and emit the requisite 304 if no change has been made? In short, is there a module or better mechanism for scripts to participate in the expiration/caching process, or to at least override the server's default behavior of marking CGI-generated content as uncachable?

In reply to RE: RE: Re: Parsing and Spewing CSS by Fastolfe
in thread Parsing and Spewing CSS by davemabe

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