- From: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 10:31:56 -0500 (CDT)
- To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Cc: montulli@mozilla.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
According to Brian Behlendorf: > I remember you (and/or Rob McCool) proposed just doing a straight string > compare of the LM and IMS (LM = IMS), which is *different* than LM < IMS < > CURRTIME. If you implemented the latter in the Netsite, the Apache group > will put it in Apache, I bet Chuck would put it in Webstar and Henrik would > put it in CERN and Brandon would put it in NCSA. Deal? I honestly think we > would address the most serious aspects of the incorrect-time problem without > forcing a change to the HTTP protocol by doing this. > I think this *is* forcing a change in the HTTP protocol. On the other hand I agree it is a good idea and it will go a long way toward solving the problems discussed here. It might be even better if the "date" of the IMS is an opaque string so it could be "<date>;length=<number>" or "<date>;md5=<md5digest>" or whatever. The only limitation is that it can't be recreated by the client, but I think that is unrealistic anyway. John Franks
Received on Thursday, 17 August 1995 08:37:23 UTC