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Re: MDMA server at UNC/SunSITE is broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Franks)
Wed Sep 14 21:59:14 1994
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 03:39:32 +0200
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From: john@math.nwu.edu (John Franks)
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In article <9409141743.aa03655@paris.ics.uci.edu>,
Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU, www-talk@info.cern.ch> wrote:
>
>The MDMA server that was just installed at http://sunsite.unc.edu/ is broken.
>
>Why it is broken:
>
..
> 2) Fails to include a Date: header on responses. This header is necessary
> for cache management.
>
Can you explain this? If the Date: is just the current time doesn't the
client/proxy server know it as well as the server.
..
>
> 4) Does not support the If-Modified-Since header (conditional GET protocol)
> that allows for efficient cache updates.
>
This may be a "good thing", but it is not in the HTTP/1.0 spec and hence
a server claiming to be HTTP/1.0 shouldn't be called broken for that
reason.
I think some of your other criticisms have merit. In addition it would
be nice if the server identified itself with a Server: header.
