>Number: 496 >Category: mod_include >Synopsis: Pages using 'virtual includes' do not update with normal >refresh >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project) >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 28 11:00:16 1997 >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.2b8 >Environment: Linux 2.0.18, gcc 2.7.2, 32 megs RAM >Description: For a corporate site I'm developing, I'm using server side includes extensively (via <!--#include virtual=""-->). Each of the pages containing the include tags has the execute bits set, and XBitHack is set to Full for the entire document tree. The site uses frames throughout, although the following symptoms appear with or without frames:
When the included information is updated, whether it's a static file, or dynamically generated via CGI, the completed page does not update when clicking on 'reload' in Netscape Navigator 3.01 or Internet Explorer 3.0. With Navigator, updates can be seen when performing a 'shift-reload'. For the CGI-generated information, I have attempted to compensate for this problem by including properly formatted Last-Modified headers in the output, but without success. >How-To-Repeat: URL's won't help, since you won't be able to update the files being included. However, this should demonstrate the problem. Create two files, file 1 being the main HTML page, file 2 contains just some simple text or HTML. View file 1 in a browser to verify that file 2's information is being included. Edit file 2. Click reload in the browser to see if the updated information appears. For me, it doesn't without a 'shift-reload' in Navigator. I think I've read about a similar problem being reported in Apache Week some time ago, but now that I've searched through my archives, I cannot locate the reference. But as I recall, the problem related to the server not properly propagating the last modified date of included information through as the last modified date of the final document. Please contact me if you need further details. >Fix: No >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
