Re: last update

> 
> 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.

Only if Server-Side-Includes work on your server and if they are enabled. We
have SSI disabled on our systems at MCC.

John

> 
> 	Brian
> 
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Received on Wednesday, 10 January 1996 05:33:26 UTC