- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 13:47:02 -0800 (PST)
- To: Abigail <abigail@tungsten.gn.iaf.nl>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Mon, 8 Jan 1996, Abigail wrote: > Imagine More!!! wrote: > ++ <address>Last updated on <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/update?foo.html"--> > ++ </address> > > Reader visits your page, downloads 50k data, storing in her cache. > From the page, she goes to the next page, and the next. > After a few pages, she selects 'top' (pointing to your first page). > Her browser sends a 'get-if-modified' request. The server knows the > requested document has an SSI, so the requested document has to be > genereted *now* and is hence "modified", sending 50k again.... > However, she has identical information in her cache. For what it's worth, I believe that if the user used <!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED" --> the server will attach a last-modified header appropriately, and properly deal with if-modified-since requests. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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