“But there I stood anyway, hoping my requests to load simple web pages would bear fruit, and I could continue teaching basic web principles to a group of vocational students. Because Wikipedia wouldn’t cache. Google wouldn’t cache. Meyerweb wouldn’t cache. Almost nothing would cache.
Why?
HTTPS.”
Thanks for the excellent link, discussed on HN a while ago [1]. For those that think an sslstriping proxy would solve it please remember that this would degrade the security for requests that really have to be encrypted.
“But there I stood anyway, hoping my requests to load simple web pages would bear fruit, and I could continue teaching basic web principles to a group of vocational students. Because Wikipedia wouldn’t cache. Google wouldn’t cache. Meyerweb wouldn’t cache. Almost nothing would cache. Why? HTTPS.”