Re: Cache control in trailers?

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Amos Jeffries writes:

> With my web-dev hat on it is quite common for CMS controlled sites to 
> have a huge mix of modification times on scripts and content sources. It 
> is a huge pain to calculate a reliable L-M before output in this 
> environment. It would much cleaner to (be able to) accumulate a 
> modification time across the scripts and dump a Trailer header with the 
> true L-M value.

This is pretty much the first thing people who start using ESI asks for,
the second being set-cookie.

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Received on Monday, 8 February 2021 08:16:48 UTC