Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 20:39:13 +0100
Message-Id: <9412021938.AA11988@neon.mcom.com>
From: luotonen@neon.mcom.com (Ari Luotonen)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-proxy@www0.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: What are the rules for caching
> http://some.host.com/dogateway/a-database-ref.html
> or http://some.host.com/dogateway/a-database-ref.gif
>
> Where the script is always "dogateway" and the "a-database-ref.html"
> document is extracted using PATH_INFO. This then goes into an SQL
> query which returns the oppropriate blob and serves the html
> doc/image from a storgage system that might have more going for it
> than say a raw Unix filesystem. I cannot see any reason why
> Last-modified and Expired should not be sent just as if this doc was
> served directly from the Unix directory.
That is exactly correct. If the scripts are smart enough, they should
provide relevant Last-modified and/or Expires dates.
Cheers,
-- Ari Luotonen http://home.mcom.com/people/ari/ Netscape Communications Corp. 650 Castro Street, Suite 500 Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
