Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 17:59:05 -0800 From: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) Message-Id: <9212050159.AA01046@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu> To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Cc: marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu Subject: last-modified document info? Would it be a good, bad, or indifferent idea to allow clients to take advantage of last-modified dates for documents when such information exists and the document server can provide it? Specifically, should httpd be able to provide this information somehow, and/or should last-modified become an optional field in the header of an HTML document? Just random thoughts, based on the assumption that it sure would be nice to be able to tell that document A was last modified in 1973... Marc -- Marc Andreessen Software Development Group National Center for Supercomputing Applications marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu