[jbosstools-dev] Any webkit / internal browser masters around?

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Google searching says its a known bug in safari/webkit:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3602887/why-doesnt-safari-honor-my-cache-control-directive

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71509

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85562

so seems like no way to avoid it.
/max

> Hey all:
>
> The internal browser view / browser editor when using WebKit (and
> Snjezana indicates other internal browser implementations as well) 
> seems
> to be caching requests that they shouldn't.  The interesting thing 
> here
> is that BrowserViewer  (used in both editor and view) are passing in
> "Cache-Control: no-cache" into the request, and yet the results are
> still being cached.   This seems to indicate that the underlying 
> WebKit
> is ignoring this flag for some reason.
>
>
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-18685
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=448933
>
> Is anyone experienced enough in the underlying APIs that can assist 
> here
> in debugging or finding what in WebKit (or other browsers) is going
> wrong that they're ignoring this flag?  w3.org documentation indicates
> these flags should *never* be ignored:
>
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
>
>
> 14.9 Cache-Control
>
> The Cache-Control general-header field is used to specify directives
> that MUST be obeyed by all caching mechanisms along the 
> request/response
> chain. The directives specify behavior intended to prevent caches from
> adversely interfering with the request or response. These directives
> typically override the default caching algorithms. Cache directives 
> are
> unidirectional in that the presence of a directive in a request does 
> not
> imply that the same directive is to be given in the response.
>
>
> This could be a  bug in webkit, or in how the internal browser is
> communicating with webkit, but I seem to be out of my area of 
> expertise
> trying to drill down into the JNI commands and webkit proper.
>
> Anyone have any ideas or experience in this area?
>
> - Rob Stryker
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/max
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