[Zope-dev] AW: Caching prob with AHCM and headers

[Dieter Maurer]

Bjorn Stabell wrote at 2003-9-11 09:59 +0800:
 > ...
 > I know, I was just trying to figure out how this was supposed to work.
 > Currently setting Last-Modified seems to be the only way to get
 > something cached in Apache; Expires alone is no good, and adding an Etag
 > header doesn't seem to have any effect either.  Maybe this should be
 > classified as an Apache problem?  Shouldn't Apache cache pages that have
 > Expires?

It would violate the HTTP 1.1 specification:

  The spec states that any cachable page must have either an
  "ETag" or "Last-Modified" header (beside any cache control
  header/s).


Dieter