Re: want to set my pages to expire but can't find info on date format expected ... from Koen Holtman on 1999-05-21 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 1999)

From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:12:35 +0200 (MET DST)
To: Scott Lawrence <lawrence@agranat.com>
Cc: RKnoll@gects.ge.com, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
Message-Id: <199905210912.LAA24745@wsooti06.win.tue.nl>

Scott Lawrence:
[...]
>It is better to specify Max-Age though and avoid clock skew problems.

Note however that just setting max-age will not work for most HTTP/1.0
clients, which don't know about max-age.  On the current internet I
would still recommend the use of Expires, though adding a max-age too
won't hurt.

>Scott Lawrence           Director of R & D        <lawrence@agranat.com>

Koen.

Received on Friday, 21 May 1999 02:18:12 UTC