Quoting Geoffrey Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Craig Sebenik wrote:
> > It looks like mod_ext_filter sets the last-modified http header based on
> > the mod time of the *filter* file and not the actual file represented by
> > the URL.
>
> > the Last-Modified HTTP header seems to be set based on the timestamp on
> > "/web_home/filters/filter.pl" and NOT on "/web_home/htdocs/file.html"
>
> I would hope it would be the newer of both, since both contribute to the
> freshness of the content, which is what is important. if you touch
> file.html do you get the newer timestamp?
my mistake. it looks like it works just the opposite of what i said. if i
change the *code*, and NOT the file, then the last-modified is unchanged.
i agree, it should be the newer of both.
(fyi, the machines are in the pacific time zone.)
> ll file.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 craighttp2898 Apr 13 19:03 file.html
> ll ../../public/filters/filter.pl
-rwxrwxr-x 1 craighttp 368 Apr 9 14:39 ../../public/filters/filter.pl*
> HEAD server/form11/file.html
200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=0, public, must-revalidate
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:07:53 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "13ec08a-b52-6312b4c0"
Server: Apache/2.0.39 (Unix)
Content-Length: 3178
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Expires: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:07:53 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:03:39 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:04:22 GMT
Client-Response-Num: 1
> touch ../../public/filters/filter.pl
> ll file.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 craighttp2898 Apr 13 19:03 file.html
> ll ../../public/filters/filter.pl
-rwxrwxr-x 1 craighttp 368 Apr 13 19:08 ../../public/filters/filter.pl*
> HEAD server/form11/file.html
200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=0, public, must-revalidate
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:08:28 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "13ec08a-b52-6312b4c0"
Server: Apache/2.0.39 (Unix)
Content-Length: 3178
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Expires: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:08:28 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:03:39 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:05:00 GMT
Client-Response-Num: 1
> touch file.html
> ll file.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 craighttp2898 Apr 13 19:15 file.html
> ll ../../public/filters/filter.pl
-rwxrwxr-x 1 craighttp 368 Apr 13 19:08 ../../public/filters/filter.pl*
> HEAD craig-www/form11/file.html
200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=0, public, must-revalidate
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:15:11 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "13ec08a-b52-8c057e80"
Server: Apache/2.0.39 (Unix)
Content-Length: 3178
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Expires: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:15:11 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:15:06 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 02:11:43 GMT
Client-Response-Num: 1
