Re: minimum-cache time?+

Dancer wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:24:49 GMT
> > Expires: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:24:48 GMT

> > Would it be a good idea to allow Squid to override such headers for
> > selected sites?
>
> I would prefer to see a system of selective overrides, yes.

Maybe Squid should just discard this page, since it is (as of the time
given by the Date: header) no longer valid. :-)

Seriously though, this behaviour is valid as of HTTP/1.0:

        If the date given is equal to or earlier than the value of the
        Date header, the recipient must not cache the enclosed entity.

(Excerpt from RFC1945 on the Expires: header.)

Disregarding this header is, unfortunately, against the "law".

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