Re: http://egcs.cygnus.com/faq.html

[Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>]

[ 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
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