On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Chris Pratt wrote:
> Of course, since the purpose of setDateHeader is to set HTTP Header
> fields, one would assume that it does it according to the
> specification. It wouldn't be a very useful method otherwise.
But I believe the spec is more specific for the Expires header than
for any of the other date headers (I assume there are, or could be,
other date headers, else why have a general method like that, as
opposed to setExpires or such). If so, it could be that setDateHeader
uses the required Expires header format for all the date headers, but
who knows. Plus you have to worry about coming up with an appropriate
long time value. Setting the Expires header directly seems more
straightforward and less problematic to me.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Milt Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 2:51 PM
> Subject: Re: BACK-ing into trouble
>
>
> > On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Chris Pratt wrote:
> >
> > > Why not use resp.setDateHeader(), it's simpler and you don't have to
> > > worry about the format?
> >
> > Well, I don't know what format setDateHeader uses, but the problem is
> > that you *do* need to worry about the format here. The spec says that
> > the Expires header must be in a specific format, including that the
> > timezone is GMT. I don't know if the later specs say anything about
> > it, but the JSDK API 2.0 docs don't indicate what format setDateHeader
> > users, so I think it's safer to do it yourself here.
> >
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Thor Heinrichs-Wolpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:21 AM
> > > Subject: Re: BACK-ing into trouble
> > >
> > >
> > > > > Does anyone out there know the correct syntax to set the Expires
> > > > > header? I cannot seem to get it to work correctly and cannot find
> any
> > > > > examples on the internet?
> > > >
> > > > resp.setHeader("Expires", "Tues, 01 Jan 1980 00:00:00 GMT");
> > > >
> > > > Thor HW
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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