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Old 18-03-2004, 12:27   #41
mr-b
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Re: Simple view on how proxies work (inc DNS)

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Originally Posted by theman
i just ran ntlworld though that site and it said they are stale
The analysis is not saying that the actual object is stale, more accurately that browsers and caches will treat the homepage html object as being stale and so always fetch a new copy every time it is accessed. ntl have done this by setting a cookie on the homepage which effectively makes it uncacheable.
The gifs have Last-Modified headers on and so will be cached and verified according to age.
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