- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:29:23 +0000
- To: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, David Booth <david@dbooth.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
In message <4F286012.6040205@qbik.com>, Adrien de Croy writes: >>> Last-Modified: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:21:10.011483 GMT > >the ability to compare against other previous Last-Modified headers. >That allows the client to know whether a version supercedes another, >rather than having to defer to the server. > >I'd be in favour. Me too. But there are necessary consequential changes: Expires: headers Cache-Control: age fields. Age: header. Possibly more. Have anybody tried sending such dates to see how much code it breaks ? I would fear a lot of both clients and servers would choke on it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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