Tuesday Oct 21, 2008
Safari Caching and Embedding Jetty
What was recently noticed was that with Safari (at least version 3.1.2 (5525.20.1)) the Last-Modified: header was not enough to achieve even minimal caching. With Firefox simply returning the Last-Modified: header would cache static content for a while but not so with Safari _if_ the Date: header was missing. So...the Date: header appears to be a required header for Safari to use the Last-Modified: header for basic static content caching.
[Read More]Posted at 03:25PM Oct 21, 2008 by jesse in General | Comments[2]
