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Graham Murray <graham@barnowl.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>Tony Finch <fanf@demon.net> writes:
>
>> Complain to the webmaster of the site because it's their fault if they
>> don't provide appropriate Expires: headers.
>
>Is that the Webmaster responsible for the content of the site, or that
>of the site which hosts/serves the pages?

The content author. The server admin is not responsible for dealing
with the age of documents on the server.

>For Demon homepages, is there any way that the customer can set the
>Expires: header so that other caches will correctly refresh (I know
>that the customer can (and should) force the Demon caches to refresh
>when a page is updated)?

No. Note that Squid does have a mechanism for "guessing" when to
expire data based on its age so frequently updated pages are counted
as stale faster.

>Will setting a Meta tag with the expires work, or does it have to be
>set in the server?

Don't use <META> tags to control anything except browsers and search
engines.

Tony.
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