[Gllug] Mozilla/Firebird/fox "Save Page As" refetch

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Mon Feb 16 17:33:30 UTC 2004


On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:12:39PM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> No joy with googling/bugzilla search on this, so might as well ask here.
> 
> Does anyone know if it's possible to stop Firefox (was Firebird) from 
> refetching a page when you do File > Save Page As. It's irritating if the 
> page in question is a report that took 30secs to generate.

If you control the page / webserver, you could try pushing an Expires:
header.  Using Apache's mod_expires you might do [not tested]:

<Location /path/to/the/page>
  ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 day"
</Location>

Rich.

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