Metas

no-cache

[colinf]

Hi, hope i am in the right group.

Can someone explain this piece of code to me, i have seen it on a webpage returned by a Google search, and it is also cached by Google, but should it be cached?

Thanks,
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="Mon, 06 Jan 1990 00:00:01 GMT">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache">

[Pinetree]

I'm not sure if I completely understand your question, but if you DO NOT want a page cached by Google, this is the code.

<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE">

[colinf]

Sorry for any misunderstanding, i would like to know what the piece of code is telling the search spiders to do/not do when they arrive on the page.

cf

[closed]

This should help:

[support.microsoft.com:80...]

Usually, if you want to tell robots something, you'd use META NAME="robots".

[nakulgoyal]

Thanks. This is good for me also.

[wkitty42]

the code in the original message is not for telling spiders anything... it is for telling caching servers and caching proxy servers what they may do with the content...

for many, setting the expiration date in the past tells them to consider the content as aged and flush it from their cache... there are other similar tricks used to get caching software to not cache the info...