Hi Sergey, I think you are missing my point. What I provided are examples only. You looked at these and concluded that this specific case was due to ISPs disabling NTP a few years ago, and also concluded that this only affected a "small amount of users" (not sure how you reached this conclusion) and thus "we are safe here".
But that is not the point. The point is that since the Date header is mandated by the RFC, clients may (rightfully) rely on it being there, and may be using it in ways that you are not aware of. Your initial analysis where the Date header is "only useful for caching" is incomplete. Regardless of what was the initial rationale for including this header, the fact is that you do not (and cannot) know how people may actually be using it. I think disabling this is a bad idea. Regarding this: > Anyway, the Date header is still compiled by default but those who don't need > it may disable it. Yes but the help text should make it clear that disabling this may break clients. The help text you added says that the header is mandatory according to the RFC, but that "it is almost useless and can be omitted". The latter statement is not based on facts, but just your personal opinion. Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia [email protected] _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
