It would be interesting to see a comparison of how common and soon-to-be-common browsers [FF3/3.5/4, IE6/7/8/9, Chrom(e|ium), common mobile browsers, ...] deal with HTTPS content by default and in response to relevant headers. No persistence, short-term persistence (not re-requesting objects currently in use elsewhere in the current document and/or other open windows/frames), up-to-session-long persistence (RAM cache), or long-tern persistence (disk cache).
I suspect there will be quite a range of behaviours, especially if you consider IE6 (which unfortunately I have to, as do many others) so a bit more consideration is needed before jumping to change expectations of static content access speeds.
Another bit of my research to add to the list of things that'll get looked into when I have some free time (i.e. when hell freezes over)...
I suspect there will be quite a range of behaviours, especially if you consider IE6 (which unfortunately I have to, as do many others) so a bit more consideration is needed before jumping to change expectations of static content access speeds.
Another bit of my research to add to the list of things that'll get looked into when I have some free time (i.e. when hell freezes over)...