- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:47:01 +0100 (MET)
- To: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Cc: mogul@pa.dec.com, frystyk@w3.org, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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 Thursday, 7 March 1996 06:51:04 UTC