Cached Web pages

[Newton]

Odd one this...
How do I know if the web page I'm looking at in IE, has been cached by my proxy (with out looking at the proxy)

[tom_newton]

It should have been cached unless it was a dynamic generated site.

So the better question is "how do I know if it *hasn't* been cached - usually a good rule-of-thumb is if it has a ? in the URL it won't be cached.

Why do you need to know this? If we know the reason we may be able to offer better answers ;-P

[Newton]

A teacher thinks the cachepilot isn't caching pages. I would like a nice simple way to prove it is (other than it loads faster)

[Michael]

Couldn't you simply say, because all traffic is routed through a proxy, it's automatically cached?

Maybe a little cheeky, but in most cases it's true!

[Jona]

You could probably use wget:
http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/#download
(see bottom of the page for proxy settings).

Cheers
Jona

[tom_newton]

Tough one.
It may be worth checking the HTTP headers, but AFAIK IE won't let you - only firefox.

[Newton]

Cheers, end up with - "its working, if it wasn't you'd have no internet"