On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 07:23:12PM +0100, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote: > > I noticed that the pages from www.debian.org cannot be read from > proxy because the expire at the time when they are loaded form > the server (that was my conclusion -- am I right?). Why is it > set up this way? > Actually, the Expires is set to 1 day from the time accessed. It is set to 1 week for gif and jpg. This was changed a few weeks ago.
It is possible that some proxies are having trouble since the Debian pages use content negotiation to serve the correct document. >From what I've read of the http spec (and I'm no expert) proxies are supposed to take this into account. I wouldn't be surprised if many of them don't do it correctly. Jay Treacy
