[hk__2]

> browsers are capable of caching all sorts of things, even something as peculiar as an HTML page.

Yes, and this is irrelevant to your previous comment: caching the HTML doesn’t cache the redirect itself.

[xslowzone]

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. The delay was not on the HTML page.

[hk__2]

> The delay was not on the HTML page.

Nobody is saying that.