[Webdev] AOL caching?

John Moylan johnm at rte.ie
Wed Nov 22 11:23:32 GMT 2000


No,

I have had similar problems with REAL Content (where users where
accessing old RAM files) and with email to AOL customers from lists.

John

Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> 
> Strange thing with AOL..
> 
> Are they doing some aggressive caching on http requests? To make a long
> story short, I was on the phone to an AOL user who making requests to
> our server (through a Java applet, running under the AOL browser) but
> the logs on the server reported he didn't make any request!
> The header returned to the applet doesn't include any expiry info, or
> content length so caching shouldn't be done, yet it appears to have
> happened.
> 
> Has anyone noticed this happening with AOL?
> 
> Donncha.
> 
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