Re: last-seen

Bert Bos (bert@let.rug.nl)
Thu, 10 Mar 1994 20:42:17 --100

|> b) is the date in GMT?
|
|Don't care.
[...]
|The receiving cache should not attempt to understand the
|semantics of the "Last-modified" date. It should be treated as a
|tag provided by the server that the server can match against when it
|is sent back in the "If-Modified-Since" field.

But presumably the requesting program only asks for the document if
the version it has is expired. That means it must have interpreted the
date & time. Isn't it better then to let the receiving cache generate
a valid date & time from its internal representation, instead of
keeping the original date string around?

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