Nigel Metheringham:
> No it does not - to calculate the checksum it would need to retreive
> the file, which kind of defeats the object of If-Modified-Since
> cacheing! Its done on dates alone. If HTTP returned some form of
> signature in the header this would help.
HTTP/1.1 does, by Content-MD5 header: it's a MD5 digest of the
object. That leads to wonder when (and if) Squid should go to be fully
1.1-aware.
-- Alessio F. Bragadini mailto:alessio@unipi.it Centro SerRA http://www-serra.unipi.it/~alessio Universita` di Pisa phone: +39 (0)50 945293Received on Mon Dec 02 1996 - 15:41:35 MST
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