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HTTP Pocket Reference
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HTTP Pocket Reference

by Clinton Wong
June 2000
Beginner to intermediate
80 pages
2h 49m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Pragma: no-cache

Synopsis

The Pragma header specifies directives for proxy and gateway systems. Since many proxy systems may exist between a client and server, Pragma headers must pass through each proxy. When the Pragma header reaches the server, the header may be ignored by the server software.

The only directive defined in HTTP/1.0 is the no-cache directive. It is used to tell caching proxies to contact the server for the requested document, instead of using its local cache. This allows the client to request the most up-to-date document from the original web server, without receiving a cached copy from an intermediate proxy server.

The Pragma header is an HTTP 1.0 feature, and is maintained in HTTP 1.1 for backward compatibility. No new Pragma directives will be defined in the future.

Example:

Pragma: no-cache
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