http://simonwillison.net/2010-02-26T12:25:24+00:00Simon Willison2010-02-26T12:25:24+00:002010-02-26T12:25:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Feb/26/cachebusting/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2009/08/20/WinINET-IE-Cookie-Internals-FAQ.aspx">Internet Explorer Cookie Internals (FAQ)</a></strong></p> Grr... IE 6, 7 and 8 don’t support the max-age cookie argument, forcing you to use an explicit expiry date instead. This appears to affect the cache busting cookie pattern, where you set a cookie to expire in 30 seconds for any user who posts content and use the presence of that cookie to skip caches and/or send their queries to a master instead of slave database. If you have to use expires, users with incorrect system clocks may get inconsistent results. Anyone know of a workaround? <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cachebusting">cachebusting</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/caching">caching</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cookies">cookies</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/internet-explorer">internet-explorer</a></p>