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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com> on 1997/06/07 05:26:04 UTC
anyone know of a "not modified" bug in Netscape 4 beta ?
I just noticed unix Netscape 4.0b5 hitting my server over and over for
GIFs that have a long off expires date.
e.g. Apache sends back:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 03:21:47 GMT
Server: Apache/1.2.0 mod_perl/0.98_11
Cache-Control: max-age=1604800
Expires: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:08:27 GMT
Last-Modified: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 03:20:05 GMT
ETag: "3fe2a-f61-3398d365"
Content-Length: 3937
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close
Content-Type: image/gif
then Netscape keeps on asking the server if it has changed whenever it
is reused, and Apache correctly reponds with a "304" code.
Anyone else seeing this ?
The headers look okay to me. I've got a hacked mod_expires.c that adds
the "Cache-Control" header.
--
Rob Hartill Internet Movie Database (Ltd)
http://www.moviedatabase.com/ .. a site for sore eyes.
Re: anyone know of a "not modified" bug in Netscape 4 beta ?
Posted by Alexei Kosut <ak...@nueva.pvt.k12.ca.us>.
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:
> Netscape 4.0b5 is a real mess though, so it's probably just one more
> bug they'll have to sort out.
>
> b5 crashes so much that b6 is going to be bundled with an airbag
> as standard.
By some odd twist of irony, the Mac version of 4.0b5 is more stable
and crash-free than any other version of Navigator I've used. It has a
few bugs, but they're mainly cosmetic (e.g., for some reason, that Netscape
icon in the upper-right corner never appears...) and I've been
happily using it since it was released.
Whatever happened to writing an Apache browser? :)
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Re: anyone know of a "not modified" bug in Netscape 4 beta ?
Posted by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>.
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Dean Gaudet wrote:
> It's not the GIF89a loop problem is it?
No, these are vanilla gifs. no animations.
Netscape 4.0b5 is a real mess though, so it's probably just one more
bug they'll have to sort out.
b5 crashes so much that b6 is going to be bundled with an airbag
as standard.
--
Rob Hartill Internet Movie Database (Ltd)
http://www.moviedatabase.com/ .. a site for sore eyes.
Re: anyone know of a "not modified" bug in Netscape 4 beta ?
Posted by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>.
It's not the GIF89a loop problem is it?
Dean
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:
>
> I just noticed unix Netscape 4.0b5 hitting my server over and over for
> GIFs that have a long off expires date.
>
> e.g. Apache sends back:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 03:21:47 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.2.0 mod_perl/0.98_11
> Cache-Control: max-age=1604800
> Expires: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 17:08:27 GMT
> Last-Modified: Sat, 07 Jun 1997 03:20:05 GMT
> ETag: "3fe2a-f61-3398d365"
> Content-Length: 3937
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: image/gif
>
>
> then Netscape keeps on asking the server if it has changed whenever it
> is reused, and Apache correctly reponds with a "304" code.
>
> Anyone else seeing this ?
> The headers look okay to me. I've got a hacked mod_expires.c that adds
> the "Cache-Control" header.
>
>
> --
> Rob Hartill Internet Movie Database (Ltd)
> http://www.moviedatabase.com/ .. a site for sore eyes.
>
>