Tomcat: Cache-Control

Question

Jetty has a CacheControl parameter (can be specified webdefault.xml) that determines the caching behavior of clients (by affecting headers sent to clients).

Does Tom

Answer 1

There actually are several elements in the Tomcat configuration which directly affect this. See documentation at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/valve.html for example.

Atlassian recommends the following two statements to ENABLE browser-side caching so that Microsoft Internet Explorer will be able to correctly download and view attached documents: