Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-20 Thread Adrian Hungate

Ah, well, that is not quite true. Zope (And apache, IIS, and others) may do
the right thing and set or not set the headers, but IE at least definately
DOES NOT do the correct thing when it comes to caching on the client (Even
with caching disabled it still caches when it feels like it).

Until clients improve, caching is just bad IMHO.

Adrian...

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From: Wei He [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Toby Dickenson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Dieter Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; R. David Murray
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Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time


 On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Toby Dickenson wrote:

   In either case, Zope's current implementation needs to be
   changed. Because it will give the client a false impression that a
page has
   not changed but actually it did.
 
  What part of Zope gets this wrong?
 

 I just realized that the Last-Modified header in a GET request is NOT
 sent for a dynamic page. I was always asuming that it is the same as the
 HEAD request of the same URL.

 So at least the user can get correct information cause the client cache
 function will not work. Whether a cache server can handle this
 situation or whether RFC allows doing this (haven't read yet) is not
 a big problem.

 Sorry to everyone. And thank all of you.

 Wei He





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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-18 Thread Oliver Bleutgen

Wei He wrote:
 On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Dieter Maurer wrote:
 
 
R. David Murray writes:
  ...
  Well, there's two aspects to this.  The first one is the quesiton of
  *why* the last modified header is currently that of the outermost
  page template.  That's a [EMAIL PROTECTED] question.  The second is
  the question of whether or not that is the right behavior, and what
  it would take to make Zope smarter such that the last modified header
  would actually be accurate.
Think about it. It is very difficult.

  In order to determine the accurate modification time, you need
  to render the template (as it is non-trivial to determine the
  set of objects the rendering depends on without actually
  doing the rendering).

  Rendering may produce side effects. But HEAD requests
  are required by HTTP not to have side effects. Thus,
  you cannot have accurate modified headers for HEAD requests.
  Moreover, usually HEAD requests do not pass the necessary
  parameters for template rendering.
 
 
 Would please go a little bit deeper giving an example what information 
 HEAD requests don't pass to the server, although it's beyond this topic.

HEAD requests are required to have no side effects. On the other hand 
they are required to return the same response as GET requests without 
the BODY.
So GET returning another last-modified header than HEAD would be in 
violation of the RFC. This gets worse by the fact that HEAD can be used 
for caching purposes.


cheers,
oliver






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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-18 Thread Steve Alexander

Wei He wrote:
 On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Oliver Bleutgen wrote:
 
 
Would please go a little bit deeper giving an example what information 
HEAD requests don't pass to the server, although it's beyond this topic.

HEAD requests are required to have no side effects. On the other hand 
they are required to return the same response as GET requests without 
the BODY.
So GET returning another last-modified header than HEAD would be in 
violation of the RFC. This gets worse by the fact that HEAD can be used 
for caching purposes.
 
 
 Totally understood. But the question is what RFC says about the 
 last-modified header. Shouldn't it reflect the latest update? Zope is 
 facing this problem because it handles the HEAD request seperately. 
 Am I right?
 
 I don't see any need to seperately handle the HEAD request. My hacking of 
 the last-modified header is done execpt that HEAD and wget -S returns 
 different headers. I think the last step is to change the HEAD handling 
 routine to the get information from GET. Does anyone have any idea?

If you *really* want to, you can run a HEAD just like a GET, but after 
getting your last-modified and other details, abort the transaction to 
undo side-effects, then return the HEAD response.

I would generally recommend against this, as it may end up being rather 
expensive.

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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-18 Thread Toby Dickenson

   Rendering may produce side effects. But HEAD requests
   are required by HTTP not to have side effects.

RFC 2616 section 9.4 states that HEAD is identical to GET in this respect, 
and both should have no side effects.


On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 10:26 am, Wei He wrote:

 I think the last step is to change the HEAD handling
 routine to the get information from GET. Does anyone have any idea?

Yes, I think that makes sense.

A while ago the list discussed changing Zope's security declarations to add a 
way to specify whether a published method has significant side-effects.

Side-effect-free methods can have HEAD and GET handled identically.

Methods declared to have side-effects can only be accessed though a POST. I 
guess GET or HEAD on such methods would result in a 405 error (Method Not 
Allowed)

(Such a change would also go a long way to reducing the scope of 
client-side-trojan vulnerabilities.)


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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-18 Thread Oliver Bleutgen

Toby Dickenson wrote:
  Rendering may produce side effects. But HEAD requests
  are required by HTTP not to have side effects.
 
 
 RFC 2616 section 9.4 states that HEAD is identical to GET in this respect, 
 and both should have no side effects.
 
 
 On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 10:26 am, Wei He wrote:
 
 
I think the last step is to change the HEAD handling
routine to the get information from GET. Does anyone have any idea?
 
 
 Yes, I think that makes sense.
 
 A while ago the list discussed changing Zope's security declarations to add a 
 way to specify whether a published method has significant side-effects.
 
 Side-effect-free methods can have HEAD and GET handled identically.
 
 Methods declared to have side-effects can only be accessed though a POST. I 
 guess GET or HEAD on such methods would result in a 405 error (Method Not 
 Allowed)
 
 (Such a change would also go a long way to reducing the scope of 
 client-side-trojan vulnerabilities.)
 
Yes, and sadly this discussion died a miserable death.

This is the point I omitted in my other reply. Dieter presumtion that 
GET can have sideeffect in zope, while right, shows exactly the problem 
with not following the RFC recommendations.
I know that it is nearly impossible to follow this strictly - as far as 
I see it wouldn't even allow showing visitor stats on a frontpage - but 
zope should at least offer some infrastructure to handle this. And it 
absolutly should be stricter in it's management interfaces and such.

To be clear, the RFC says:

HEAD SHOULD NOT have sideffects.
GET SHOULD NOT have sideffects.
HEAD SHOULD return the same http-headers as GET.

So none of the discussed changes would make zope violate the RFC, as it 
doesn't really require the above, it just recommends.


cheers,
oliver




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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-18 Thread Dieter Maurer

Wei He writes:
  ...
  2. From the website developers' point of view, there are already many 
  guidlines on how to create a good webpage. Among them are using the HTTP 
  Last-modification header to take the advantages of client cache.
I think you overestimate the importance of accurate Last-Modified
headers.

  In order for caching to be allowed, there must
  either be a Last-Modified or (alternatively) an Etag header.

  However, the value of the Last-Modified is almost irrelevant
  for caching. I think, it is only used when a HTTP cache
  validates on object, in that is uses this date in an
  If-Modified-Since request.

I would use Expires and Cache-Control for cache control.


Dieter


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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-18 Thread Wei He

On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Dieter Maurer wrote:

 Wei He writes:
   ...
   2. From the website developers' point of view, there are already many 
   guidlines on how to create a good webpage. Among them are using the HTTP 
   Last-modification header to take the advantages of client cache.
 I think you overestimate the importance of accurate Last-Modified
 headers.
 

Perhaps. But I think Etag, If-Modified-Since or whatever headers only 
make sense to a cache server that is designed to use these values, not
for a generic one or the end users browser clients. And the last one is 
the real place caching-related headers making sence to.

If I understand correctly, the Expires header can only give the 
client an impression how ofter a page is updated. 

 I would use Expires and Cache-Control for cache control.
 
Only when you want to disable the cache function, can these two headers be 
useful. 

Wei He



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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-16 Thread Chris Withers

  BTW: This list if for development *of* Zope, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is
  better for questions bout developing *with* Zope.
  
 Thanks for your codes indeed. I posted it here because I thought only 
 people have high developing skill care about whether their web 
 pages are up-to-date to their readers and so care the HTTP Last-modified 
 header. 

Why do you think that? Surely all zope users will care about this? ;-)
Besides, that's not the point, re-read Casey's email more carefully...

 Although I'm new to Zope, I'm not new to mailing list. I know the 
 mailing list rule but I just don't agree with your classification of my 
 question. 

Well, I second Casey's opinion :-P

cheers,

Chris


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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-16 Thread Wei He

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Chris Withers wrote:

   BTW: This list if for development *of* Zope, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is
   better for questions bout developing *with* Zope.
   
  Thanks for your codes indeed. I posted it here because I thought only 
  people have high developing skill care about whether their web 
  pages are up-to-date to their readers and so care the HTTP Last-modified 
  header. 
 
 Why do you think that? Surely all zope users will care about this? ;-)
 Besides, that's not the point, re-read Casey's email more carefully...
 

I don't think so. There are quite ofter a user should click CTRL and the 
refresh button to get the up-do-date page. This is because the 
Last-modified header not properly set. If DTML doesn't care about the 
modification time of it's code segments, it will definitely returns the
template's modification time although the contents are keep on changing.

My conclution is that if DTML doesn't do this or dosen't provide a simple 
way to do that, Zope may not care about the header at all. So dynamic webpage
authors with basic skill could never control it. Only people have developing
skill may do. Am I right?

Here is Casey's email:

 There is no automatic way in which DTML can do this for you. This is
 simply because dtml-var foo doesn't tell Zope what foo is. Is it a

No mater what foo is, there is surely a last modification time of foo.
If it is a document. that's easy. If it is a script, there should be a 
method like self.setLastModificationTime(scriptTime). This method should 
decide if scriptTime is newer than DTML document's own update time and set 
it if so. Then it's up to the script writer to call the method with the 
current time if he/she want to disable browser's caching function.

 document or a script that returns something different every time it is
 called or something else? In fact foo might different things at
 different times, if you aquire the template into different contexts.

What stops the main DTML document from knowing the last modification time 
of foo? 

In fact, Casey's script is just a walk-around. Script writers should 
manually create a list containing all code segments he/she dtml-vared.
(Sorry for using this phrase to express my disagreement on choosing 
dtml-var against dtml-include). It's a boring task if there are many 
nested code segments included.

I'm a PHP user for several years and I'm try to migrate part of my 
projects to Zope. Changing from PHP to DTML/Python is not a big deal. 
But I'm so used to the easy environment PHP provides coders. 

Wei He



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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-16 Thread R. David Murray

On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Chris Withers wrote:
 Why do you think that? Surely all zope users will care about this? ;-)
 Besides, that's not the point, re-read Casey's email more carefully...

  Although I'm new to Zope, I'm not new to mailing list. I know the
  mailing list rule but I just don't agree with your classification of my
  question.

 Well, I second Casey's opinion :-P

Well, there's two aspects to this.  The first one is the quesiton of
*why* the last modified header is currently that of the outermost
page template.  That's a [EMAIL PROTECTED] question.  The second is
the question of whether or not that is the right behavior, and what
it would take to make Zope smarter such that the last modified header
would actually be accurate.  The answer to that may be, there is no
implementable algorithm that will work.  That question still probably
doesn't belong on zope-dev, though, but instead on zope3-dev grin.

--RDM



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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-15 Thread Wei He

On 14 Jun 2002, Casey Duncan wrote:

 BTW: This list if for development *of* Zope, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is
 better for questions bout developing *with* Zope.
 
Thanks for your codes indeed. I posted it here because I thought only 
people have high developing skill care about whether their web 
pages are up-to-date to their readers and so care the HTTP Last-modified 
header. And why don't you think this issue is not for Zope developers?
Dosen't Zope care about readers getting the accurate information?

Although I'm new to Zope, I'm not new to mailing list. I know the 
mailing list rule but I just don't agree with your classification of my 
question. 

I'll post the next develope-with-zope issue to that list. 

 There is no automatic way in which DTML can do this for you. This is
 simply because dtml-var foo doesn't tell Zope what foo is. Is it a
 document or a script that returns something different every time it is
 called or something else? In fact foo might different things at
 different times, if you aquire the template into different contexts.

I think it isn't a bad thing DTML doing this for me. At least the 
Last-modified header can refelect the template modification time.

Wei He






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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-14 Thread Casey Duncan

BTW: This list if for development *of* Zope, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is
better for questions bout developing *with* Zope.

On to your question:

There is no automatic way in which DTML can do this for you. This is
simply because dtml-var foo doesn't tell Zope what foo is. Is it a
document or a script that returns something different every time it is
called or something else? In fact foo might different things at
different times, if you aquire the template into different contexts.

Anyhow, if you really want to set a Last-Modified header that reflects
the latest of a group of documents, you can write a python script that
accepts either a list of names or objects to test. For the latter here's
a Py script named setLastModTime with a single argument, *objects:

last_mod = objects[0].bobobase_modification_time()
for ob in objects[1:]:
last_mod = max(last_mod, ob.bobobase_modification_time())
context.REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Last-Modified', last_mod.rfc822())
return last_mod # for debugging purposes

Then from dtml:

dtml-call expr=setLastModTime(this(), fooMethod, barDocument, ...)

hth,

Casey

On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 00:10, Wei He wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Say you have 1_html with only one line:
 dtml-var 2_html
 
 When you HEAD http://xxx/1_html, you get Last-Modified refelecting only 
 the last modification time of 1_html, while most people is expecting it 
 to be newer one of 1_html and 2_html. 
 
 Does anyone know of a walk-around like using the max() of 
 bobobase_modification_time().timeTime() on the document itself
 and all the componets it dtml-vared?
 
 Forgive my using of non-Zope terms, for I'm new to Zope/Python.
 
 Wei He
 
 
 
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Re: [Zope-dev] Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time

2002-06-14 Thread Steve Alexander

Casey Duncan wrote:
 BTW: This list if for development *of* Zope, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list is
 better for questions bout developing *with* Zope.
 
 On to your question:
 
 There is no automatic way in which DTML can do this for you. This is
 simply because dtml-var foo doesn't tell Zope what foo is. Is it a
 document or a script that returns something different every time it is
 called or something else? In fact foo might different things at
 different times, if you aquire the template into different contexts.
 
 Anyhow, if you really want to set a Last-Modified header that reflects
 the latest of a group of documents, you can write a python script that
 accepts either a list of names or objects to test. For the latter here's
 a Py script named setLastModTime with a single argument, *objects:
 
 last_mod = objects[0].bobobase_modification_time()
 for ob in objects[1:]:
 last_mod = max(last_mod, ob.bobobase_modification_time())
 context.REQUEST.RESPONSE.setHeader('Last-Modified', last_mod.rfc822())
 return last_mod # for debugging purposes
 
 Then from dtml:
 
 dtml-call expr=setLastModTime(this(), fooMethod, barDocument, ...)

A similar approach would be for each page fragment to set the 
Last-Modified head if either there is no header set, or its own 
last-modified time is later than one that is set.

--
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