Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?

[Stephen Satchell <list () satchell net>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> Does browser caching still work these days? I thought all web admins 
> disabled it on their servers because they can't be bothered to think 
> about which cache directives to send along with each page. I can rarely 
> return to a previously viewed page without the browser hitting the 
> network, in any event.

Actually, browser caching is a function of the Web design tags, not the 
server.  So, the decision to allow caching is on the page creator.  On 
my own sites, I leave caching to the default unless there is a good 
reason to disable caching.  One site I used to run, a warranty form 
processor, I disabled all caching -- at all levels -- because it was a 
database-driven site allowing updates from multiple people at the same 
time, so caching was highly inappropriate.

Caching use to bite me regularly when I was doing customer support. 
Which led to the mantra "Clear the cache!"