BaseHTTPRequestHandler - bypassing browser cache

[JanC]

crescent_au at yahoo.com (Ben) schreef:

> My problem is whenever I access a link from the browser, even the
> starting page "http://localhost:9857/", it doesn't seem to read the
> cache file. It just seems to return me the data from browser cache,
> unless I press the reload button on the browser, then it fetches it
> from the internet and updates the cache file.
> 
> What seems to be the problem?? I'd like to always read from my cache
> file first. Any suggestions??

Did you read the HTTP/1.1 specification?

RFC-6216, section 13 "Caching in HTTP":
<http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html>

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JanC

"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving."
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