On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Gilles Detillieux saved the day: } Back in July 2001, the 3.2.0b4 snapshots of htdig did not support } RFC 1123 date formats in meta tags. They do now, because of a switch } to a more generalized date parsing method, but that won't help Vince. } He should stick to ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD is all that this snapshot } will parse), which is apparently the standard date format for use in } meta date tags anyway.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Using ISO 8601 format has saved the day; htsearch now shows the last modified day as 2002-10-19, as it should. FWIW, according to RFC 1945, section 10.10 [for HTTP/1.0] and RFC 2068, section 14.29 [for HTTP/1.1], RFC 1123 *is* the standard date format for meta date tags, not ISO 8601. Any chance htdig will go back to supporting RFC 1945/2068? } In htdig -vvv output, when it displays "time: ...", this only means it } got that date string and it's about to attempt to parse it - it's not } a confirmation that it did parse it correctly. If it can't parse it, } it will silently ignore it. Aaah. Ok, that's good to know. As you probably can tell, I'm new to htdig, but I did try and read all the docs I could find. Apparently I missed the debugging documentation. So, let me make sure I got this straight, because I didn't notice any difference in the -vvvvv output between the two runs of htdig: Tag: META name="date" content="2002-10-19", matched 20 time: 2002-10-19 [...] Tag: META name="date" content="Sat, 19 Oct 2002 21:10:54 GMT", matched 20 time: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 21:10:54 GMT The first two lines are from the newly created page with the ISO 8601 formated date field, while the last 2 lines are from my previous attempt using RFC 1123 formats. How can I tell, from the above -vvvvv output, that the 2002-10-19 string was properly parsed? I didn't see any other mention of Oct 19th in the log file. The only way I know that 2002-10-19 was parsed properly is by running a search and seeing the 'last modified' htdig varable defined as Oct 19, 2002. Thanks again for your help, Gilles, I appreciate it! /vjl/ -- Vince LaMonica UC Irvine, School of Social Ecology W3 Developer <*> 116 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.seweb.uci.edu/techsupport E Pluribus UNIX. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
