Kir,
see my notes below:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kir Kolyshkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [aseek-users] Date modified times
>
> Can you provide me with more details:
>
> 1. Should date meta tag have a higher priority than Last-Modified, or
> be taken into account only if there is no Last-Modified?
I feel the best apporach would be to use it as a higher priority over
Last-Modiifed since if someone took the time to inlcude it in their document
then they must prefer it to the lastmod time. Also it could be a config
option that is turned off by default...
>
> 2. Is that a standard of any kind, or just ht://Dig extension? If it's
> not a standard, please describe a way how you use it.
Yes it is an accepted standard for a few search engines out there. In fact
htdig will either use "date" or "htdig-date" as the meta name.
> 3. Does this prevents re-loading the whole document from the network,
> or it just prevents from document parsing and storing in DB?
I'm not sure what you mean here. Are you talking about the meta tag or the
server parsed file? The meta tag is just there for informational purposes
similar to a meta description tag etc..
The server parsing things is common to all web servers like netscape and
apache in the fact that if the file is parsed on the server (like ssi's,
php, etc..) then the server never gives you a proper last-modified date (it
will usually just say unknown in netscape, I think IE will just give today's
date).
>
> 4. What is date format?
An example would be:
<meta name="date" content="2001-01-31">
So in other words "Y-m-d" with leading zeros for the day and month fields.
>
> BTW please note that we also honour/set ETag/If-None-Match pair of
headers,
> and we also honour Expires: header, if it is set to a date later than
> now + Period from aspseek.conf (See RFC 2616).
>
I don't really think this relates to what I am needing to do since this is
more about expriring content from pages where as all I am wanting to do is
determine when the document was created/modified last.
Thanks for your help, I look forward to anything you can do. I wish I knew
more C so I could help out. My feeling is that if you are already
interpreting other meta tags such as description, content and robot - then
it would be pretty straight forward to add this feature but then again I
have no idea where you are storing the lastmod dates for each url so maybe I
am wrong ;-)
Thanks for any help,
Brett
> Maybe this will be of any help to you?
>
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