Re: 'Age' for web pages from Merin Tresa Willy on 2010-06-12 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2010)

From: Merin Tresa Willy <merintwilly@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:21:03 +0000
To: nathan@webr3.org
Cc: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <AANLkTikyeP0uQWB_m5TOqmIftywO1NcJmO86amk8mUhK@mail.gmail.com>

Doesn't the 'last-modified' detail actually work only for the static
pages? For dynamic pages, it gives the then current time, right? So it
might not prove useful when working with pages containing dynamic
content?

On 6/12/10, Nathan <nathan@webr3.org> wrote:
> Merin Tresa Willy wrote:
>> Is a third dimension - 'age' necessary for webpages? Will its inclusion
>> help
>> search engines and the like, to retrieve pages containing up-to-date data?
>> Or is there already any mechanism for retrieving the age of the contents
>> of
>> dynamic web pages?
>
> Last-Modified ?
>

Received on Saturday, 12 June 2010 11:44:03 UTC