Wonderful!

Should I file a bug report for this?  It's only a 1 line diff.

Thanks,
Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:49 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Cache-Control headers not being added to secure requests

On 23/08/2011 19:09, Zampani, Michael wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> Doesn't the entire securePagesWithPragma flag fail the robustness 
> principle?  It's specifically there to fix caching issues with IE, 
> similar to the issue we're now seeing.
> 
> I understand how I would create a Filter to do this, but I'm trying to 
> understand why this behavior was removed from Tomcat itself, while 
> other IE specific logic remains.
> 
> It seems as though the kernel of logic here is that 'pages with 
> security-constraints' should have these headers automatically added. 
> There should be a specific reason to add the additional
> isSecure() check.
> 
> For example, there is a clear reason the POST check was added. 
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec13.html#sec13.10 But I 
> cannot find a similar argument for checking isSecure

The isSecure() check pre-dates my involvement with the project. I did some 
digging and this is the reason:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=287690
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6641

It looks very much like a work-around for an IE bug, almost certainly the same 
one that securePagesWithPragma is intended to fix. On that basis, I'm not 
against removing the request.isSecure() check.

Mark

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