Re: How to make mod_svn_dav return a last-modified header?

Hi

On Wed 06-Aug-2003 at 10:42:06 +0100, Chris Croome wrote:
>
> On Wed 06-Aug-2003 at 10:25:01AM -0500, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> > I think we did this in revision 6636, resolving issue #971.
> >
> > Can you check the change against those docs and let us know if we
> > missed anything important? That would be a big help, thanks...
>
> OK, I need to upgrade from version 0.24.1 (r6278) first though!

Right I'm now running a new version:

 [root@atomism i386]# rpm -qa subversion
 subversion-0.26.0-6658

And there are still no Last-Modified headers being produced (The ETag
looks OK though):

  [chris_at_snowball chris]$ lynx -head -dump http://atomism.demon.co.uk/svn/repos/morris/morris.jpg
  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 16:11:19 GMT
  Server: Apache/2.0.47 (Red Hat Linux)
  ETag: "1//morris.jpg"
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Connection: close
  Content-Type: application/octet-stream

And as a result it's not very cache friendly:

  http://www.ircache.net/cgi-bin/cacheability.py?query=http://atomism.demon.co.uk/svn/repos/morris/morris.jpg

  Expires -
  Cache-Control -
  Last-Modified -
  ETag "1//morris.jpg"
  Content-Length 8.8K (9059)
  Server Apache/2.0.47 (Red Hat Linux)

  This object will be considered stale, because it doesn't have any
  freshness information assigned. The object had changed when validation
  was attempted.
 
The best thing would be if an Last-Modified header was produced that
matched the date when the file was last changed:

  Validators are very important; if one isn't present, and there isn't
  any freshness information (Expires or Cache-Control) available, most
  caches will not store an object at all.

  The most common validator is the time that the document last changed,
  the Last-Modified time. When a cache has an object stored that
  includes a Last-Modified header, it can use it to ask the server if
  the object has changed since the last time it was seen, with an
  If-Modified-Since request.

  Almost all caches use Last-Modified times in determining if an object
  is fresh; as more HTTP/1.1 caches come online, Etag headers will also
  be used.

  http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/#VALIDATE

Chris

> > Chris Croome <chris@webarchitects.co.uk> writes:
> > >
> > > Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
> > > http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/
> > >
> > > Cacheability Engine
> > > http://www.mnot.net/cacheability/

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Chris Croome                               <chris@webarchitects.co.uk>
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