Do we really need all these Meta Tags

[lohia anirudh]

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="distribution" content="global" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<meta http-equiv="resource-type" content="document" />

I have added all these meta tags on my site. But I am not very sure if we actually need all of them? Your advice will be appreciated.

[phranque]

greetings la and welcome to WebmasterWorld.

i would skip the following:
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="distribution" content="global" />
<meta http-equiv="resource-type" content="document" />

pragma is specified for requests but not responses so who knows if/what you get.
distribution defaults to global.
resource-type can only be document so it is redundant.

i would only use the following if you want to prevent server or browser cacheing:
<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" />

[lohia anirudh]

Thanks for the reply