At 11:17 PM 10/11/2001 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>Here's a new one.  What is a REQUEST_METHOD = HEAD?  Isn't that just GET
>or POST?

It's like a GET, but it only wants the timestamp in return. Browsers will 
ask for a HEAD if they are caching a copy of the document in the hope that 
they don't need to get another copy. But I think you said you were setting 
the pages to always expire, so no browser should be asking for this.

Obviously one is, so you'd probably want to return the current date and 
time, which should be greater than the date and time you vended the 
document. Perhaps add some time (like a minute) to guarantee that.

You'll want to double check the HTTP RFC for the definition of HEAD. I'm 
speaking from distant memory.

Since WebKit pages are always derived, perhaps Page should default to the 
behavior I described. For applications whose pages really do stay the same 
over some period of time, the Page author could override this behavior.

Opinions?


-Chuck


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