Thank you both for your responses. I don't know if you could tell, but I was a bit frustrated by the prior discussions on this not really addressing the root of the problem. I'm glad to know I'm not *just* crazy or overly picky.
In the mean time I'll try to write a wrapper for the current functionality and I'll share it here if I'm successful. I'm new to OOP and Django and not really all that great at programming anyway. But I'll see what I can figure out. Thanks, Shane On Mar 3, 7:01 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:48 -0800, davathar wrote: > > I'm using @never_cache as follows and IE7 has the correct behavior, > > but Firefox 3.06 allows me to view the content of all previous pages > > by clicking the back button even after going through a logout. > > [....] > > > So, is this a feature waiting to be developed? Or is there a way to > > make it work right with the existing code? > > Django does a reasonable, but not sterling, job in this particular case. > We need to add a few more "no really, we seriously mean it" headers for > the don't cache situation. The GMail instance is closer to the real > thing for never caching. > > Right now Django is serving up "never_cache" as "always stale", however > browsers and intermediate caches are permitted to serve stale instance > under certain circumstances (and, when you throw in buggy > implementations, even more often than that). You're seeing the > variations of interpretation between your IE and Firefox experiments, > for example. It's a difficult area and not particularly well (and > definitely not consistently) implemented across browsers. I suspect it > might be provable that, in this case, both browsers are doing a correct > thing, if you look hard enough at the specs (particularly when you throw > in offline browsing considerations). > > In conclusiong, though, we can and will, at some point, throw in a few > more headers in this particular case. > > Regards, > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
