719132 - firefox is using non valid way to clear cache

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[Petr]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
Build ID: 20111220165912

Steps to reproduce:

Refreshed a page


Actual results:

It sent a max-age=0 to cache proxy


Expected results:

It should send Pragma: no-cache more details in original report - this bug is old more than 10 years and still not resolved
http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/imc-tech/2001-October/005697.html

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

bug 419194 could be related

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The url you link to is a complaint that a purposefully-not-spec-compliant proxy is not behaving "as expected" because its not spec-incompliant enough, as far as I can tell.

So what is this bug about, exactly?  On a reload, we _don't_ want to prohibit intermediate caching; we just want to make sure we get updated content, but we don't mind if intermediate proxies cache it.  That's exactly what "max-age=0" should do in a spec-compliant proxy.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

And in fact, based on the summary, this bug is just invalide.  sending "max-age=0" as a way to request up-to-date content is what the spec says to do.  We are NOT trying to "clear cache".