Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters

Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters http://www.mnot.net./cache_docs/#REFCaching Tutorialfor Web Authors and WebmastersThis is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involvedunderstandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material aresimplified or omitted, for the sake of clarity. If you are interested in the minutia of the subject, please explorethe References and Further Information at the end.1. What’s a Web Cache? Why do people use them?2. Kinds of Web Caches1. Browser Caches2. Proxy Caches3. Aren’t Web Caches bad for me? Why should I help them?4. How Web Caches Work5. How (and how not) to Control Caches1. HTML Meta Tags vs. HTTP Headers2. Pragma HTTP Headers (and why they don’t work)3. Controlling Freshness with the Expires HTTP Header4. Cache-Control HTTP Headers5. Validators and Validation6. Tips for Building a Cache-Aware Site7. Writing Cache-Aware Scripts8. Frequently Asked Questions9. Implementation Notes — Web Servers10.— Server-Side Scripting11. References and Further Information12. About This DocumentVirtualization Whitepaper Clearing CacheNext generation approach to application Permanently Erase your web tracks. Clean Your deployment & management PC - Free Download. What’s a Web Cache? Why do people use them?A Web cache sits between one or more Web servers (also known as origin servers) and a client or many clients, ...