Re: stingy yahoo server?

Klaus Johannes Rusch (e8726057@student.tuwien.ac.at)
Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:17:20 CET

In <199612081706.JAA01578@shellx.best.com>, Dan Gildor <gyld@best.com> writes:
> :> - If-Modified-Since: a date when you last indexed a ressource, so you don't
> :> need to get the whole document if it hasn't changed anyway
>
> I'm curious. I just implemented a little test to see how
> If-modified-since, and I noticed that IIS doesn't behave properly (it
> returns the document anyway).

Dan,

the server may ignore the If-modified-since header, and send the document
anyway. A good server, however, would probably not want to send a document
which already is at the client.

Klaus Johannes Rusch

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