On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 15:05,  <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
> Violeta Georgieva <violet...@apache.org> wrote:
>
[...]
>>My question is why the expires header is set with this value? Doesn't
>>this
>>prevent caching?
>
> Yes. That is the point.
>

But there is no need for an expires header if you don't want caching.
It is enough to "Cache-control: no-cache" (or "no-store", though the
latter wreaks havoc on IE and downloads) or, if you are _still_ using
HTTP/1.0, "Pragma: no-cache". The "Expires" is not needed at all.

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