[wp-hackers] HTTP headers prevent page from being cached by thebrowser...

Danny Dawson danny at quasistoic.org
Thu Jul 1 03:12:52 UTC 2004


The point though:  Does it need to happen at all?

-Danny

WordPress at thunderbyrd.net wrote:

>This doesn't happen in IE I don't think.
>
>.rob.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: hackers-bounces at wordpress.org [mailto:hackers-bounces at wordpress.org]On
>Behalf Of Rich Manalang
>Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 5:41 PM
>To: hackers at wordpress.org
>Subject: [wp-hackers] HTTP headers prevent page from being cached by
>thebrowser...
>
>One of the things I've noticed about WP powered sites is that when
>you're halfway down a page, then click on a link to go to another page
>or site, then use the "back" button to go to the previous page you were
>on, you're always taken to the top of the page you were on before?  This
>is probably because the HTTP headers sent down to the browser by WP
>tells the browser never to cache the page and always retrieve a fresh copy.
>
>I'm not sure how this could be fixed or if we should be sending expire
>headers or etags that more accurately reflect when a page has changed
>(or if it's even possible to do that), but it would be nice to always
>take the user back to the same place on a page when they click on the
>browser's back button.
>
>Anyone have any ideas?
>
>Rich
>http://manalang.com/archives/category/wordpress/
>  
>




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