> Synopsis: A smarter "Last Modified" value for SSI documents > > State-Changed-From-To: open-closed > State-Changed-By: dgaudet > State-Changed-When: Thu May 22 22:42:47 PDT 1997 > State-Changed-Why: > Unfortunately it's not at all easy to do this in one pass > over the input files... especially because the headers have > been sent before any of the input files are processed. Changing > that behaviour can be quite expensive... there are possibilities > that have been tossed around. But nothing has been coded up > yet. > > Thanks for using Apache! > Dean >
Hi Dean, Thanks for your answer - it is not completly satisfying to me. Using SSI for standard headers and footers in *.html documents is a practical design method used by an increasing number of webmasters. (Most of them not even know that they prevent apache to send a "Last Modification" value when using SSI and thus prevent any sensible caching of their documents.) We will use "ExpiresByType" for setting a default Expires value for all *.html documents and "meta files" with Expires for any exception as a workaround. (Using "XBitHack" is a hack in my opinion) But anyway - workarounds may be a solution for me - but apache should work with the normal configuration as good as possible. I think it's in your interest to provide documents to as muche people as fast as possible. In the next years only caching will give some help against overloaded networks *and* overloaded web servers. I hope you will reconsider to find a way to improve your great software to be more cache friendly. (There are also endusers using a webserver not only providers.) Best regards, Ernst ----------------- SWITCH Swiss Academic & Research Network ------------------ Ernst Heiri Voice: +41 1 268 1540 (direct: 1543) SWITCH Head Office Fax : +41 1 268 1568 Limmatquai 138 Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland Mail : S=heiri;O=switch;P=switch;A=400net;C=ch;
