I guess the question is "is there ever a case where you wouldn't want a date header?" If there is a valid case for this, then I see no reason for node not to add this in.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:47, Martin Cooper <mfncoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Martin Cooper <mfncoo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> As mnot pointed out in pull request #311 (back in Sep 2010), date >>> headers are required in responses. The pull request addressed that, >>> and it looked like it was merged in. But if it was, it seems to have >>> fallen off again somewhere along the line, because there's no sign of >>> date header handling in the http module. >>> >>> What's the story on this? Can we get this added (back) in? >> >> Anyone? It seems to me that this is important functionality that's >> currently missing from Node (and is entirely appropriate for core). > > I lean towards 'no'. I like the low-level nature of the http module. > If people want to add a Date header, they can do so manually or have > their web framework of choice do it for them.
