[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-257) HTTP caching headers don't provide expected behaviour

["Robby Morgan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robby Morgan commented on COUCHDB-257:
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I just want to make perfectly clear that this issue is still present in IE 11.

Here's a blog post from 2011 indicating that this issue was never isolated to IE 6 only: http://www.dashbay.com/2011/05/internet-explorer-caches-ajax/

> HTTP caching headers don't provide expected behaviour
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-257
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-257
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: HTTP Interface
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.1, 0.9
>         Environment: Server: Ubuntu Hardy on x86. Client: Windows XP (32-bit).
>            Reporter: Vinay Sajip
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: caching-header-patch.diff, expires.patch
>
>
> The HTTP caching headers currently put out cause IE (for example) to not display information correctly in Futon. It's easy to reproduce: I open windows in Firefox and IE simultaneously, do an update using Firefox (e.g. add a new document) and refresh the IE window. The updated document count is not shown. If I clear the browser cache and try again, the updated information is displayed.  The HTTP header put out is
> Cache-Control: must-revalidate
> which seems to me insufficient - for IE, at least. Is there way of configuring these headers, to for example 
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Pragma: no-cache
> Expires: some date in the past, or the same value as the Date: header
> Christopher Lenz has said about this that "This is due to extra-aggressive (and against the HTTP spec) caching   that IE does on XMLHTTPRequests. A patch would need to do user agent sniffing to conditionally add the  "cache: false"  parameter to the jQuery ajax() invocations in   jquery.couch.js (and maybe elsewhere). I wouldn't want to add this for all user agents, as it basically circumvents any caching for AJAX  requests (even for not-craptastically-broken implementations), and  thus would add quite a bit of unnecessary overhead."
> To this, I would comment that I don't believe a patch to the client-side code in Futon would be sufficient. There are other clients out there, some of which will be on Windows and so by default use the (acknowledgely broken) Microsoft stack. In my view it is more important to err on the side of correctness than performance - so I believe the headers generated server-side need to change, as well as perhaps Futon client-side changes.
> I note that handle_uuids_req in couch_httpd_misc_handlers.erl uses the no-cache/Expires scheme I mention.



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