Re: Location Proposals

Shel Kaphan (sjk@amazon.com)
Thu, 31 Aug 1995 17:41:58 -0700


Larry Masinter writes:
 > > Expiration dates in the future are usually guesses, and often
 > > overridden by user actions.
 > 
 > I object to this interpretation. Expiration dates *must* be
 > conservative.
 > 
Point taken. It is all but unenforceable, though, given that any CGI
script can insert any Expires header it wants.

FMI, how do you think that documents with *no* Expires headers should be
treated by caches?  (Let's posit that they do have valid Last-modified headers).