Firefox 5 'caching' 301 redirects

Question

Is there any way to disable this \'feature\'?

For example, if a request is made to http://localhost/foo.html that I have specified to \'301\' to the roo

Answer 1

301 is just a normal cacheable response code. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.3.2 says:

This response is cacheable unless indicated otherwise. 

So if you don't want it cached, your server needs to indicate otherwise through the normal headers used to control cache behavior.

You can also clear the cache manually.