- From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 96 10:32:21 PST
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
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... ---------- ] From: http-wg-request@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com ] To: <"luotonen@netscape.com">; <luotonen@netscape.com> ] Cc: <"mogul@pa.dec.com">; <mogul@pa.dec.com>; <"frystyk@w3.org">; <frystyk@w3.org> ] ; <"http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com">; ] <http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com> ] 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. ] ] ]
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