"Adrian Herscu" <bmf1972@a...> wrote in message 
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> Hi Neil,
>
> Although I never used PHP, by looking at your snippet I recognize that this 
> solution is not different from the previous -- both circumvent the caching 
> mechanisms between the server and its clients :-(
>
> This solution is worse than the previous one since it requires the 
> installation of some server-side software (the PHP script requires a special 
> scripting engine).
>
> But I guess that I will have to live with this:
> "The Mozilla XMLHttpRequest does not cache at all - you have to handle that. 
> The IE implementation caches by default unless told not to by the server or 
> when a request header is sent that involves caching (like If-Modified-Since)"
> ...until somebody at Microsoft will dare to fix this bug (in Mozilla it is 
> already fixed).
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Adrian.
>
>
In my opinion that's not a bug. IE is following normal http protocols. Mozilla 
gives you no choice whereas many people have requested that XSLT files are 
cached where possible.

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Joe (MVP - XML)

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