[us...@httpd] mod_cache: possible bug with cache-control max-age vs expires (rfc2616)

2010-10-13 Thread frank goossens
Morning list; While playing around with mod_cache Drupal (Pressflow actually) I think I may have found a problem in mod_cache's implementation of the http/1.1 cache expiration mechanism. According to the spec (rfc 2616, 14.9.3), cache-control max-age overrules expires: If a response includes

Re: [us...@httpd] mod_cache: possible bug with cache-control max-age vs expires (rfc2616)

2010-10-13 Thread frank goossens
2010/10/13 Igor Galić i.ga...@brainsware.org This list might be the wrong place to discuss such matter just following the bug reporting guidelines on http://httpd.apache.org/bug_report.html :-) I believe we're talking about this PR here https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35247

Re: [us...@httpd] mod_cache: possible bug with cache-control max-age vs expires (rfc2616)

2010-10-13 Thread frank goossens
2010/10/13 Igor Galić i.ga...@brainsware.org: - frank goossens fut...@gmail.com wrote: so the question is; how can these (related) problems be tackled? Maybe by fixing the specification? http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-11 but does the spec need fixing? seems clear