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Re:Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please by Pharaoh2 on Friday January 29, 2016 @02:14PM (#10997690)
Uhh, what caching advantage are you talking about? Everything that can be served cached over HTTP can also be served cached over HTTPS. Unless you are talking about a caching proxy outside of the website control. In that case, they aren't needed, CDNs solved that problem in a much better way.
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Re:Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please by toomuchtodo on Friday January 29, 2016 @03:40PM (#10998329)
> Unless you are talking about a caching proxy outside of the website control. In that case, they aren't needed, CDNs solved that problem in a much better way.

There are still parts of the world where caching proxies are used to conserve limited transit bandwidth; CDNs don't solve that.

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Re:Login Forms Over HTTPS, Please by paulddraper on Saturday January 30, 2016 @12:16AM (#11000631)
"Everything that can be served cached over HTTP can also be served cached over HTTPS. "

Only if you're taking about a browser cache. Any other cache couldn't intercept the data and cache it without alerting the browser (unless you mess around with installing SSL certs).

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