On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know... I kind of see this as somewhat similar to defaulting > to sending the Host header on requests. > > As long as there's some way to opt out of it, the default should make > node servers behave the right way. Maybe you can set the date header > to null if you want to not send the date? > >> It's pretty easy to break the spec. Do you really want node ensuring we >> never serve invalid HTTP? That seems like a fool's errand. > > Sure, but if it's easy to be more valid more of the time, then that > seems reasonable. > > Martin, wanna try a patch for this?
Pull request #311 has a solution for this: https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/311 If people are happy with that, and we just need a newer version against current code, I can certainly create a new one with the same changes. It looks like opting out can be done by setting shouldSendDate to false up front. -- Martin Cooper
