[WEB4LIB] Re: date last modified script?

[Avi Rappoport]

One problem with using SSI: it tends to send the current date as the 
file modification date in the HTTP header, so search engines always 
think the file is new, even if it's not actually been touched for 
years.  There are ways for the search engine and/or the server to be 
smarter than this, but they mostly don't.

Avi

At 7:57 AM -0800 2/9/2000, Dennis Moser wrote:
>Duly noted, however:
>
>1. While "Any (non moldy old) web server" CAN be set up, etc., not every
>SysAdmin likes to allow it...hence, my caveat.
>
>2. SSI is a very rich topic and does require as much thought as using
>javascript. HOW one uses the command is vitally important, as you point out,
>so the user should understand what they are doing. Blindly copying someone
>elses' code is a good way to get started, but hardly recommended for using
>on the final version.
>
>As can be seen by the responses so far, SSI seems to be the "recommended"
>approach.
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