Re: [MiNT] CAB OVL (?)

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
> [mailto:mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi]On Behalf Of Konrad M.
> Kokoszkiewicz

> > In fact my experience is just the opposite. CAB doesn't ever see the HTTP
> > headers associated with a document, so it never sees the Cache-Control or
> > Pragmas that turn caching on or off. So CAB always caches files, even when
> > they should not be cached. This is certainly a bug. There is no indication
> > that you're seeing an out-of-date file, so you just have to hit reload when
> > you suspect something is wrong.
>
> If so, it perhaps could be useful to make the OVL carry all the
> caching, and tell users to disable the caching functions in CAB itself?
> Is this possible/reasonable?

I don't think this is possible since CAB generates the filenames that the
OVL stores files into. CAB doesn't ask the OVL for filenames, as it would
need if the OVL did the caching.

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