This is exactly true. Here's an example as outlined in bsd's release
notes that demonstrates this:
voyager:~ $ telnet www.microsoft.com 80
Trying 207.68.137.53...
Connected to www.microsoft.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/3.0
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:36:01 GMT
cache-control: private
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 22140
Content-type: text/html
Expires: Wed, 14 May 1997 23:36:00 GMT
Set-Cookie:
MC1=GUID=8f8cd375ccab11d099ac0000f8600b9a&ID=8f8cd374ccab11d099ac0000f8600b9a;
expires=Wed, 15-Sep-1999 19:00:00 GMT; domain=.microsoft.com; path=/
Cache-control: private
Connection closed by foreign host.
David Richards wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Netscape may have their pages set up the same way that Microsoft
> have theirs. You can not cache Microsoft's pages in the normal fashion.
> I haven't done it, but I believe you have to set up some sort of exception
> rule for these pages, so that they can be cached. Maybe Netscape have
> decided to do the same things. But, I just tested it and my access.log
> just came up with a "TCP_HIT" message when I accessed home.netscape.com
>
> www.msn.com (Microsoft Network) always forces a refresh for some
> reason.....oh well, such is life at Microsoft. :-)
>
> Dave.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> David Richards Ph: +61 7 3864 4354
> Computing Services e-mail: dj.richards@qut.edu.au
> Queensland University of Technology
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Maciej Szulc wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have got (great) Linux running Squid for my departament. Almost
> > everything goes well, but sometimes it doesn't remember new link -
> > http://home.netscape.com for example (It has never remembered netscape -
> > other sites -OK, but never netscape (it doesn't touch only the netscape-
> > there are other sities also). Even if Squid has link in cache, i have to
> > wait - after a while that transmission is great, but before i see 'Site
> > .... contacted, waiting for reply for approx. 5-30 sec). I got 'parrent'
> > cache (squid also), that is configured for port 8080 and ICP 3130. Should
> > I configure it as 'slibling'? What does the 'sliblig' do? Squid has 0.5GB
> > storage on disk, 32MB RAM, and is running on Amd486/100MHz (dedicated
> > machine, only for www cache). Should i enable 'udp_hit_obj' to speed my
> > squid up?
> >
> > __________ _____
> > \ __ /
> > Maciej Szulc \ / e-mail:
> > Student of Computer Science \/ wodzu@pg.gda.pl
> > Technical University /\ wodzu@ds2.pg.gda.pl
> > of Gdansk /\/\ d61292ms@cs-boglab.eti.pg.gda.pl
> > /. .\
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oooooo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > DS-2 server delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl system administrator
> >
-- Don Joy System Administrator SooNet CorpReceived on Wed May 14 1997 - 16:40:55 MDT
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