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Quick HTTP Question
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YOu have to change by setting the headers in the response object.
response.setHeader(httpHeader, value)
In Pages that is done in the pageRequestBegin section
In the world of JSP you just say:
<%
response.setHeader(....);
%>
BTW: This won't help you with AOL. AOL caches the page on its servers and doesn't look at this stuff. The only ways I found to "beat" AOL is to:
- Create a unique URL each time (x.jsp?date=timeinmilliseconds)
- Have all AOL users use HTTPS since AOL does not cache HTTPS pages
response.setHeader(httpHeader, value)
In Pages that is done in the pageRequestBegin section
In the world of JSP you just say:
<%
response.setHeader(....);
%>
BTW: This won't help you with AOL. AOL caches the page on its servers and doesn't look at this stuff. The only ways I found to "beat" AOL is to:
- Create a unique URL each time (x.jsp?date=timeinmilliseconds)
- Have all AOL users use HTTPS since AOL does not cache HTTPS pages
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mingus, you are correct with what you say. AOL does not look at any HTML code and will cache all URLs that aren't unique or that aren't HTTPS. They say they won't cache if there is a ? mark or ; in the URL, but my URL has a question mark and they cache.
The thing is we bought this software from another company and the pages are encrypted and I can't change them.
There is an HTTP Header object that is separate from the HTML and page code that AOL will obey. It's easy to change the HTTP header in Microsoft IIS, but I don't know how to do it in SilverSteam.
If I change the Cache-Control=[no-cache] to Cache-Control=[no-store], AOL says they won't cache it...
Can you help? Thanks....
Russ
The thing is we bought this software from another company and the pages are encrypted and I can't change them.
There is an HTTP Header object that is separate from the HTML and page code that AOL will obey. It's easy to change the HTTP header in Microsoft IIS, but I don't know how to do it in SilverSteam.
If I change the Cache-Control=[no-cache] to Cache-Control=[no-store], AOL says they won't cache it...
Can you help? Thanks....
Russ
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