[MKDoc-modules] [feature request] MKDoc::Apache_Cache should supply Expires: header

[Chris Croome]

Hi

On Tue 03-Feb-2004 at 02:59:14PM +0000, Bruno Postle wrote:
> I've just been tinkering with a cache policy and made a few complex
> changes, it's very difficult to check that a page is _really_ being
> cached for a week - How can I tell?
> 
> The answer is for MKDoc::Apache_Cache to set and/or replace an
> Expires: header for every response, this has two benefits:
> 
> * I can do HEAD requests and confirm my policy settings.
> 
> * Downstream proxies/caches can use this info for caching.
> 
> The HTTP Expires header is specified here:
> 
>     http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.21

+1 

A more human readable document is Mark Nottingham's excellent
document:

  Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
  http://www.mnot.net/cache_docs/

Chris

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