On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 18:47, Martin Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Martin Cooper <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> As mnot pointed out in pull request #311 (back in Sep 2010), date > >> headers are required in responses. The pull request addressed that, > >> and it looked like it was merged in. But if it was, it seems to have > >> fallen off again somewhere along the line, because there's no sign of > >> date header handling in the http module. > >> > >> What's the story on this? Can we get this added (back) in? > > > > Anyone? It seems to me that this is important functionality that's > > currently missing from Node (and is entirely appropriate for core). > > I lean towards 'no'. I like the low-level nature of the http module. > If people want to add a Date header, they can do so manually or have > their web framework of choice do it for them. > If people want to get so low level they can break the spec they should just use net.createServer(), no?
