[9559] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: last update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (john)
Wed Jan 10 05:37:21 1996
From: john <John.Heaton@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
To: brian@organic.com (Brian Behlendorf)
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:30:42 +0100 (MET)
Cc: www-html@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960109134449.10147O-100000@fully.organic.com> from "Brian Behlendorf" at Jan 9, 96 01:47:02 pm
Reply-To: John@mcc.ac.uk
Resent-From: www-html@w3.org
>
> On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Abigail wrote:
> > Imagine More!!! wrote:
> > ++ <address>Last updated on <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/update?foo.html"-->
> > ++ </address>
> >
> > Reader visits your page, downloads 50k data, storing in her cache.
> > From the page, she goes to the next page, and the next.
> > After a few pages, she selects 'top' (pointing to your first page).
> > Her browser sends a 'get-if-modified' request. The server knows the
> > requested document has an SSI, so the requested document has to be
> > genereted *now* and is hence "modified", sending 50k again....
> > However, she has identical information in her cache.
>
> For what it's worth, I believe that if the user used
>
> <!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED" -->
>
> the server will attach a last-modified header appropriately, and properly
> deal with if-modified-since requests.
Only if Server-Side-Includes work on your server and if they are enabled. We
have SSI disabled on our systems at MCC.
John
>
> Brian
>
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