Thanks Bjorn, now I remember the last-modified issue. As I remember it, someone said that the line is commented out for a reason not known... that's why I didn't change it :) /Carsten
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Bjorn Stabell [mailto:bjorn@exoweb.net] Gesendet: Freitag, 12. September 2003 12:14 An: zope-dev@zope.org Cc: Janko Hauser; pixel@bitmechanic.com; Jens@zope.com; Germer, Carsten Betreff: [Summary] Caching prob with AHCM and headers
Just for the record to help others in the same situation...
PROBLEM Apache (1.3.28 and 2.0.47) will not cache content with just an Expires header, but it will correctly cache content with a Last-Modified header. This problem has been reported before in 1999 by James Cooper, but the bug request seems to have been forgotten/ left behind.
It makes sense for dynamic content to produce Expires headers, not Last-Modified headers, so this is a problem.
Looking at the code for Zope, it seems that the standard HTTP accelerator product used to produce a Last-Modified header, but no longer does so, thus making it useless with the current versions of Apache.
The problem has been re-reported to the Apache group with patches: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23129 (for Apache 1.3.28) http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23130 (for Apache 2.0.47)
WORK-AROUNDS 1) Produce a Last-Modified header yourself by using 2) Patch Zope's standard HTTP accelerator product so that it produces a Last-Modified header (the line is commented out now)
SOLUTIONS 3) Patch Apache (see bug report links above for patches) 4) Wait until the problem is hopefully fixed in Apache
Bye, -- Bjorn Stabell bjorn@exoweb.net Tel +86 (10) 65918490