- From: john <John.Heaton@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 10:30:42 +0100 (MET)
- To: brian@organic.com (Brian Behlendorf)
- 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. 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 > > --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- > brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/ > -- John Heaton Phone: (+44 161)/(0161) 275-6011 Manchester Computing FAX: (+44 161)/(0161) 275-6040 The University of Manchester Email: John@MCC.ac.uk Oxford Road, Manchester WWW: http://www.mcc.ac.uk/John/ M13-9PL, UK AX25: g1yyh@gb7pvo.#16.gbr.eu
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