Re: expires (was: lynx-dev cache control)

[Webmaster Jim]

On Sun, Sep 12, 1999 at 01:21:58PM -0500, Klaus Weide wrote:
> > file=index.html&content=text/html&expires=Tue, 10 Oct 1994 14:11:01 
> > GMT&title=File index.html
> So I have to take back what I wrote:
> > Unfortunately putting this stuff in META doesn't "result" in this header
> > to be sent by the server _as_ an HTTP header, for any known servers.
> since we now know of one server that does it. (any others?)
> Does it understand arbitrary headers with HTTP_EQUIV, or just a fixed set
> (expires and maybe some others)?

No arbitrary headers; WN understands Expires and Keyword, which it uses
for its internal search methods.  WN is derived from GN I think. For
more info, see

http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/manual.html
and
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/docs/search=context?query=meta

The META tags are mentioned in Appendix B.

> > I think of it as preparing the HTTP, not the server, but that's really
> > what is being done.
> That I don't understand - you mean the HTTP _response_?

I mean I'm priming the response, yes, but I think of it as part of the
page.  The page doesn't expire, merely the server's representation of
the page.

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