Re: If-Modified-Since and forged dated

> In the absence of another (cleaner) way to prevent caching this will
> become the de facto way for a server to tell a client (or proxy) not
> to cache.
> 
> This, in effect, overloads the Last-Modified header so that 
> 
> Last-Modified: <date in 2010>
> 
> means "please don't cache this document."  This is obscure and error prone.

Uh, well, just leaving it out will tell the same thing.  That would be
a much better "de facto", doesn't involve forging.  Both NS and CERN
proxies support it now.

Cheers,
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Ari Luotonen				ari@netscape.com
Netscape Communications Corp.		http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/
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Mountain View, CA 94043, USA		Netscape Server Development Team

Received on Wednesday, 16 August 1995 09:51:14 UTC