Re: Document Indexing -- How to index Dynamic Content?

Ian Graham wrote:
> 
> As we all know, many HTML documents are generated dynamically. To
> indicate this fact, most HTTP servers omit the Last-modified: HTTP
> response header field when returning dynamically generated content.
> This is reasonable, but also very crude, 

Right. A slightly more intelligent server would take the date of the
base document and look at the date of any other included files and
return
the most recent modification date; the date of the newest part.

-- 
Chris Lilley, W3C                          [ http://www.w3.org/ ]
Graphics and Fonts Guy            The World Wide Web Consortium
http://www.w3.org/people/chris/              INRIA,  Projet W3C
chris@w3.org                       2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93
+33 (0)4 93 65 79 87       06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France

Received on Wednesday, 13 November 1996 08:31:41 UTC