Re: Can proxies rewrite Date:?

There is no such implication of the Date being changed by a proxy in 
the 1.1 section on 304 -- it does say the cache should update its 
stored copy of Date from what it gets from the origin server in the 304 
response...
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] Subject: Re: Can proxies rewrite Date:?
] Date: Thursday, March 07, 1996 6:47AM
]
] Ari Luotonen:
] >Neither one of the proxies I've written changes the Date: header, and
] >I'm not aware of any proxy that does it.  I would say it's safe to
] >trust the Date: header not to be mangled by intermediaries.
]
] I believe that caching proxies are supposed to rewrite the Date:
] header in a response that is refreshed with a `not modified' response
] to a conditional GET.  See the last line of the 304 definition in the
] 1.0 draft spec.
]
] I don't know if this is actually done, though.
]
] But if the date header is part of the data digested for the
] message-digest, this would certainly give problems under 1.1.
]
] >Ari Luotonen				ari@netscape.com
]
] Koen.
]
]
]

Received on Friday, 8 March 1996 10:38:11 UTC