Re: Proper HTTP header (Last-Modified:)

David Balazic <david.balazic@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi!
> 
> I noteced that viewcvs.cgi ( 0.9.2 ) does not send a Last-Modified: HTTP
> header
> when serving a file for download , like in URL :
> 
> http://www.server/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/*checkout*/dir/file.htm?rev=HEAD&conten
> t-type=text/html
> or
> http://www.server/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/*checkout*/dir/file.htm
> 
> ( rev=HEAD is the default value , I assume )
> 
> Neither does it send an "ETag:" header.
> 
> The result of this is, that the HTTP client ( a web browser
> application ) can not take decisions whether to use its cached data
> or reload form web server, meaning that it always downloads instead
> of using a cached version, so the the browsing is slow. We use
> viewcvs.cgi to serve our web pages, so this is an issue for us.
> 
> Are there any plans to add this feature to viewcvs ?

Ooh, this is a good idea.  Subversion sends ETags with its GET
responses for exactly this reason.  There were no plans to add this
feature (that I was aware of), but please file a Feature Request in
our tracker at the SourceForge site:

   http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=368760&group_id=18760&func=browse