Re: [Lynx-dev] Why doesn't lynx cache newyorker.com home page?

[David Woolley]

On 09/12/2020 14:23, russellbell@gmail.com wrote:
> That's not it.  It's not close to full, pages accessed after
> it are in the cache, it's smaller than many of the articles on
> newyorker.com that I accessed after it that are in the cache.  If I go
> backwards with the left arrow it's jumped over.

What HTTP headers are being returned to Lynx?  Given the nature of the 
page, I would imagine that The New Yorker would want to set very short 
cache expiries, or stop caching entirely.

Looking at the response that Firefox gets, it has 
cache-control=no-cache, but no modification date or entity tag.  The 
cache-control means the browser is expected to revalidate the page, but 
the lack of the other two seem to rule out a conditional fetch, so it 
probably does have to fetch the whole page.

However, I don't know how Lynx handles this.