mhonarc-users

RE: Cacheing and mhonarc indexes

1998-02-23 15:09:23
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dlaliberte(_at_)gte(_dot_)com[SMTP:dlaliberte(_at_)gte(_dot_)com]

Nevel, Simeon writes:
 > Rather than use the "expires" META tag, I used the "no-cache"
 > pragma.  

Please don't defeat caches needlessly.  The only reason to use
no-cache
is if something changes every time you request it, [...]

Instead of defeating caches, work with them by including the
Last-Modified header in output, and by processing the
If-Modified-Since
requests that caches will make.

Can you describe *exactly* what the "Last-Modified" header should 
look and where it should be added?  

I imagine I could use the $LocalDate$ or $GMTDate$ (along with
appropriate formatting resources) to specify the date.

Simeon