On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, John Line wrote:
> [Summary: if the origin server's clock is running fast (or it generates
> incorrect timestamps as though it were), documents which should be
> uncacheable (no last-mod or expires timestamps, etc.) may be cached and cause
> problems in consequence.]
[...]
> Tricky... any ideas how this could be tackled, other than by saying "tough
> luck" to any problems caused by origin servers with a bizarre idea of time?
> [And putting up with the time wasted investigating problems which turn out
> to have this problem as their cause.]
>
> John Line
The simplistic solution might work. Just reset the timestamp of any
object which would have negative age such that it has zero age. I can't
see any obvious problems with that at the moment.
John
Received on Tue Nov 10 1998 - 07:08:30 MST
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