- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 23:17:50 -0800 (PST)
- To: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: frystyk@w3.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Our discussions (in the caching subgroup) have assumed that Date: > is set when the response is generated by the origin server, and > we have used this assumption to define the meaning of Expires:. > If proxies rewrite Date: response headers, we are in some trouble. 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. Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
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