What heuristics do browsers use to cache resources not explicitly set to be cachable?
Let’s assume all browsers we are interested in are Internet Explorer 8 or newer (e.g. IE5 has some terrible behaviour with caching headers). There is only ONE standards based way of controlling caching (introduced with HTTP/1.1) – the Cache-Control HTTP header. Since at least 1996 IE has been using an opt-out policy for caching HTTPS … Read more