Re: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark

Arjan van de Ven (root@fenrus.demon.nl)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:54:17 +0200


In article <Pine.LNX.3.96dg4.990609221332.25920q-100000@twinlark.arctic.org> you wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Alex Belits wrote:

>> > I'm not that happy about getting things like "building a
>> > Date: Header with time zone and everything" in the kernel.
>>
>> It's in GMT, and IMHO can be omitted. And userspace application can feed
>> parameters to the kernel just like what is used for kmod.

> If you intend to implement HTTP, and you intend to use the Last-Modified
> or Expires headers, then you MUST include a Date header. See rev-06 of
> the update to rfc2068 for more clarification.

kHTTPd is sending "Last-Modified" and "Date" headers since version 0.1.0.
It also responds to "If-modified-since" requests.

It is NOT a complex thing to do. It might slow down the benchmark a bit (not
the one's on my page, they are WITH the headers), but kHTTPd is not just
about benchmarks.

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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