Proxy User May Receive Old Data From a Web Site

• Microsoft Proxy Server version 2.0

SYMPTOMS

When you are browsing the Web through the Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 Web Proxy service, the client may receive old data in the browser.

CAUSE

If a client request contains an If-Modified-Since entry in the HTTP header and the target object is cached but expired, the proxy adds a second If-Modified-Since header, which is an undefined condition in HTTP. This is a fairly common condition because of browser caching and downstream proxy caching. Depending on which If-Modified-Since entry the publishing server decides to honor, the problem could lead to old data getting returned the client.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain and install Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 Service Pack 1 SP1. For more information about Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 Service Pack 1, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q238375 Proxy Server 2.0 Service Pack 1: List of Fixes

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Proxy Server version 2.0.

The problem is corrected by Microsoft Proxy Server 2.0 Service Pack 1.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, visit the Microsoft Proxy Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/proxy

Additional query words:

Keywords : prodprx2
Version : winnt:2.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbprb