"Axel-Stephane SMORGRAV" wrote: > You are exactly right. However, the real question is: why does the request contain > that max-age directive? Because the "Reload" button was hit in Firefox. Try simply to just hit "Enter" in the URL bar or copy/past the URL into a new tab, you will find the max-age header is then omitted. Firefox assumes that when the user hits "reload" he wants everything as fresh as possible. And most of the time only a small minority of traffic comes from people hitting "Reload" so you may be able to use "CacheIgnoreCacheControl Off" and keep most of your performance gains. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx