From: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:12:36 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-http-fetch: Allow caching of retrieved objects by proxy servers
Message-ID: <20050914131236.GH24405@master.mivlgu.local>
In-Reply-To: <7vfys93qn5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:59:26AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> writes:
> 
> > This patch removes the "Pragma: no-cache" header from requests for all
> > files except the pack list (objects/info/packs) and references
> > (refs/*), which are really mutable and should not be cached.
> 
> Thanks.  What the patch does looks reasonable.
> 
> Do you know if we can use it for any reasonably recent version
> of curl?  I seem to recall we already do things slightly
> differently depending on LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM.

http://cool.haxx.se/cvs.cgi/curl/include/curl/curl.h?rev=1.1&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
shows that CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, curl_slist_append() and
curl_slist_free_all() were available in Dec 1999, curl 6.3.1.  The FAQ
entry about disabling "Pragma: no-cache" is from Aug 2, 2000.