- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 14:44:55 -0700 (PDT)
- To: Lou Montulli <montulli@mozilla.com>
- Cc: Roy Fielding <fielding@beach.w3.org>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Tue, 15 Aug 1995, Lou Montulli wrote: > > >In addition to supporting size=SIZE I encourage other server authors to > > >do an _equals_ comparison rather than a greater than or equal comparison > > >of the two dates. > > > > Absolutely not -- that would be a violation of both the spec and the > > intentions of IMS. In addition to being a cache mechanism, it allows > > a client to request a document "only if it has been changed in the last > > fifteen minutes". In this case, it may not know what the server's > > Last-Modified date is prior to the request. > > If it is a violation of the spec then you really ought to make the spec > clearer on this point. All the major servers that I know of do a > greater than or equal comparison. ...which is what Roy's saying the spec says they should do. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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