Re: HTTP repo referencing stale heads (can't clone)

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Nick Hengeveld wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 07:28:28PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote:
> 
>> Ah, should have known. I am behind a (lame) transparent proxy on port 80.
>>
>> I opened that file in my web browser and it showed the old heads. After 
>> a force-refresh (ctrl+F5, which sends some additionally http headers to 
>> refresh the page from the real server), the old heads disappeared, and 
>> git now clones successfully.
>>
>> git-http-fetch should probably send those extra headers too. I'll try to 
>> find some time to look at this next week.
> 
> git-http-fetch uses the "Pragma: no-cache" header when requesting
> objects that shouldn't be cached.  Is this the additional header you're
> referring to?
> 

As per HTTP 1.1, it should also send:
Cache-Control: no-cache

Pragma: no-cache is the deprecated extension.
It's safe to send both.

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