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Matthew_Goche_6
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Feb 22, 2007

Problems encouraging caching on the browser

We are a web-hosting site and we have an iRule setup to encourage caching on the client browsers. However, a lot of URIs that meet the iRule arguments are not being cached by clients running IE6.0. ...
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spark_86682
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Feb 23, 2007
There's a fascinating post on MSIE 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x behavior with regards to compression, caching, and HTTP headers at http://lists.over.net/pipermail/mod_gzip/2002-December/006826.html (Click here). MSIE 7 is a whole other ball of wax, of course, and I won't claim to know all those corner cases.