Re: Getting sites to use Expires: headers

I was successful on a few (although lesser known) sites by threating to
block add banners and force a certain expiry time for all items on their
site. Upping the number of users going through my cache aided this a bit
:-)

BTW, I'm curious what you're using on those radar images. I have done
something similar for my caches to prevent the outdated images from coming
up, but they don't catch the images all the time. Also, if you let me know
the specific person your are bugging over there I'll add a few complaints
to their logs for you :-).

        -Bill

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Michael Pelletier wrote:

> I've been pestering the Weather Channel website on and off for months
> and months to try to get them to implement Expires: headers in their
> radar maps so that Squid doesn't cache them too long. Same goes for
> NASA/JPL's Cassini Today page at
> <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/cassini/today/>. And yet, no response.
>
> I even sent specific instructions to NASA on how to implement meta
> files in Apache, the web server in use at JPL, to no avail.
>
> I really hate having to put refresh rules for every site that fails to
> use Expires: headers. Does anyone have any ideas on how we can
> motivate and/or educate these web admins on the benefits of caching
> and of using HTTP features that are cache-friendly?
>
> -Mike Pelletier.
>
> --
> "[It will] be very hard to increase browser share on the merits of
> [Internet Explorer] alone. It will be more important to leverage
> the OS asset to make people use IE instead of Navigator."
> -- Christian Wildfeuer, a Microsoft Manager
>
Received on Tue Jun 30 1998 - 16:07:27 MDT