Since Firefox version 3, it's done aggressive caching of visited pages, and
does not, by default, check if the cached content is still valid when
reloading or revisiting a page. By default, Firefox seems to not re-contact
the web server at all. Compare with eg, Epiphany and Chromium, which appear
to always check, and get back a 304 when the page is unchanged.
This header makes Firefox do the right thing, at least for html files. It
still over-caches if css, javascript, images, etc, are changed.
* openid: Use Openid Simple Registration or OpenID Attribute Exchange
to get the user's email address and username. (Neither is yet
used, but they are available in the session object now.)
+ * page.tmpl: Add Cache-Control must-revalidate to ensure that users
+ (especially of Firefox) see fresh page content.
-- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:48:10 -0500
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
+<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="must-revalidate" />
<title><TMPL_VAR TITLE></title>
<TMPL_IF NAME="FAVICON">
<link rel="icon" href="<TMPL_VAR BASEURL><TMPL_VAR FAVICON>" type="image/x-icon" />
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