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Re: Please evaluate my cache-control & pragma etc. code [message #182522 is a reply to message #182518] Sat, 10 August 2013 08:49 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On 09/08/13 19:22, Twayne wrote:
> Mainly I'm interested in whether it's considered workable/usable.
> It doesn't seem to be working on my win 7 XAMPP PHP5.3 Local
> Server. The data still seems to exist if/when I "go back" to the
> preceding page of an e-mail form.
>
> <?php
> session_start();
> header('Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate'); //HTTP/1.1
> header('Expires: Sun, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 GMT');
> header('Pragma: no-cache'); //HTTP/1.0
>
> TIA,
>
> Twayne`
>
my limited experience suggests that browser caching is more affected by
the etag.
I have been writing a framework that serves all pages /objects from a
database ( for reasons of security and control), and found that in
general browsers don't really honor cache control, but they do honor etags.
I think proxies tend to honor cxahche control more.

The browsers tend to say 'ive got a copy, do I need a new one?' and
actually ask, using the etag.

I found that out looking at my log files on pages with multiple images
under constant rerfreshing. The logs were full of 304 responses, but
there were always as many of those as the page had images for a given
page load.

The code that checks the etag is here - it really does reduce server
load if you want to not resend data that's already been sent

// check if etag matches if none match request headers
function check_etag($etag)
{
if(isset($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH']) &&
strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_IF_NONE_MATCH'],$etag))
{
header('HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified');
exit();
}
}
This is a handy way to encourage browsers not to re-download static pages.

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