On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 11:03 -0500, Dan Connolly wrote:
> I re-dicovered http://bitworking.org/projects/httplib2/ .
> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9.3
>
> Then I see max-stale is what I want, but then in httplib2.py, I see:
>
> We will never return a stale document as
> fresh as a design decision, and thus the non-implementation
> of 'max-stale'.
>
> So I'm getting no help from either side. Sigh.
I'm having some luck with only-if-cached. But I think the case
of a cache miss is buggy. Patch attached.
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Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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Index: httplib2/__init__.py
===================================================================
--- httplib2/__init__.py (revision 181)
+++ httplib2/__init__.py (working copy)
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
elif cc_response.has_key('no-cache'):
retval = "STALE"
elif cc.has_key('only-if-cached'):
- retval = "FRESH"
+ retval = response_headers.has_key('status') and "FRESH" or "STALE"
elif response_headers.has_key('date'):
date = calendar.timegm(rfc822.parsedate_tz(response_headers['date']))
now = time.time()
