At 10:46 AM 30/06/99 -0500, Dan Connolly wrote:
> > Is W3C coordinating any work on cacheability or freshness issues like this?
>
>Er... yes. I think the HTTP 1.1 design covers these cacheability
>and freshness issues, and we did a lot of "coordinating" in
>the development of the HTTP 1.1 draft standard.
>
>We host the
> HTTP/1.1 Implementor's Forum
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Forum/
>(excerpt: "Agranat Systems EmWeb
> Server: The clockless server does not send Date headers,
>but does provide enough information for caches to operate correctly. ")
Thanks for the extra info.
The point I was trying to make was really about deployment, not standards.
[If everyone implemented 1.1 completely and correctly, we would not be
having this discussion.] The Apache example was that providing correct
expiry information was a compile-time option. How can we ensure that this
behaviour becomes default?
Rgds,
John
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