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[ Here is an abstract for the mailing list and Paul as this has been resolved off-list. ] On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote: >> Please don't artificially alter the time stamps on HTML files. It is a >> major nuisance to viewers and presents an artificial (and some would go so >> far as to say fraudulent) image of recently-updatedness to the file. > ^^^^^^^^^^ > [...] > With regard to Paul's request: Jason, I noticed that indeed the egcs web > server apparently does not provide "Last modified/Last changed" data. Once notified of this issue, Jason quickly analysed the situation and found out the following: If you enable the Server Side Include (SSI) feature of the apache httpd, it doesn't send a Last-Modified header for SSI documents. On egcs.cygnus.com/sourceware.cygnus.com, the server is configured to assume that all HTML documents are potentially SSI documents, so it never output the Last-Modified header. The EGCS pages do use the SSI stuff for the Glimpse index stuff, so I need to leave it enabled for those. By Tuesday he had obtained a patch for this by DJ Delorie and updated the Apache server on the egcs machine. Again, thanks a lot to Jason for his quick response and fix for a problem that was _not_ his fault, let alone intentional or fraudulent. Paul, I believe you really owe Jason an apology, either here on the list or by private e-mail. Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/