One more info that could be relevant. The mime type is application/x- silverlight-2; the file extension is xap.
On Mar 16, 12:04 pm, JC <[email protected]> wrote: > I suspect that somehow GAE is not treating the resource as static file > - specifically with its xap file extension. > > I tried setting a custom mime-mapping in web.xml for the xap > extension, and also tried to declare it as static file using the > static-files tag in appengine-web.xml. None worked. > In summary, we have gone over the outside server possibility, the date > format issue. The file is not located under WEB-INF directory. All of > them don't seem to be the cuase of the issue. > > Please advise. > > Thanks, > > On Mar 16, 10:37 am, JC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I see what you mean. > > > In my case, the resource (with .xap extension, don't know if that > > matters) resides in GAE server as part of the deployed web app; there > > is not URL Fetch to fetch the resource from outside server. The > > resource is not located in the WEB-INF directory either; it is located > > under a directory called ClientBin under root. It is a static file > > that I thought should be treated like other static files; say, a jpg > > file. > > > On Mar 16, 2:15 am, Alkis Evlogimenos ('Αλκης Ευλογημένος) > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ermm.... ok lets try for a third time :-). Say you have a GAE app and you > > > fetch pages from cnn.com. If cnn.com does not supportIf-Modified-Sincethen > > > you are never getting 304's back, no matter what headers you put in your > > > request. It has nothing to do with GAE. > > > > In the example above "server" is cnn.com. > > > > - alkis > > > > 2010/3/16 JC <[email protected]> > > > > > Are you saying that not all GAE servers running in the Google data > > > > center supportIf-Modified-Since? Can you elaborate a bit more? The > > > > Java app was deployed to GAE data center which I assume is running the > > > > latest 1.3.1 which claims to support conditional Get. > > > > > On Mar 15, 6:15 pm, Alkis Evlogimenos ('Αλκης Ευλογημένος) > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > With server I mean the server you are fetching pages from. That server > > > > might > > > > > not have support forIf-Modified-Since. > > > > > > - alkis > > > > > > 2010/3/16 JC <[email protected]> > > > > > > > Thanks for the prompt reply! > > > > > > > I don't quite understand what you meant by server not supporting it. > > > > > > It is running against central GAE server, not my local development > > > > > > server. > > > > > > > As for the date format, This is the dump of the HTTP header through > > > > > > a > > > > > > network sniffer as follow.. It seems to be conforming to HTTP spec. > > > > > > Do > > > > > > you see anything wrong? > > > > > > > GET /ClientBin/oob.xap HTTP/1.1 > > > > > >If-Modified-Since: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:28:17 GMT > > > > > > User-Agent: Silverlight > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > On Mar 15, 2:22 pm, Alkis Evlogimenos ('Αλκης Ευλογημένος) > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > >If-Modified-Sinceworks in GAE. Either the server you are hitting > > > > does > > > > > > not > > > > > > > support it, or you are sending it a timestamp it doesn't > > > > > > > understand. > > > > > > > > - alkis > > > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 6:28 PM, JC <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > GAE 1.3.1 for Java includes a fix (issue 575) to support > > > > conditional > > > > > > > > get for static files. I have tried sendingIf-Modified-SinceGet > > > > > > > > header to retrieve a static file from GAE, It always returns 200 > > > > (with > > > > > > > > full payload) instead of 304 (unmodified) even though the static > > > > file > > > > > > > > hasn't been changed for a while. I have cleared my browser > > > > > > > > cache so > > > > > > > > that the timestamp in theIf-Modified-Sinceis current timestamp. > > > > It > > > > > > > > doesn't seem to work. 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