clientside-caching

SSL Problem: Client Side Caching (JS/CSS)

It appears that SSL causes a browser (at least FF 3.0.14) to re-request unchanged JavaScript and CSS every time, and doesn't cache either resource at all. That's a significant bandwidth increase in my case (about 80 KB instead of ~3 KB per request). How can I enforce/promote caching of my JS/CSS files the regular way on the client brows...

Can JavaScript survive a full HTTP Request Roundtrip?

Is it possible to have JavaScript (specifically, JavaScript variables and their content) survive full HTTP requests? I'd like to 'cache' / persist information client-side across page changes, without having to use hidden form fields or anything HTML related at all. Is this possible? Edit: Let me add a use case for what I mean. Let'...