LYNX-DEV Re: ssi pages

[Drazen Kacar]

Doug Lawson wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, 16 Nov 1996, David Woolley wrote:
> 
> > Brad Whitlock
> > > 
> > > We use server-side includes to accomplish that, and that *is* visible to 
> > > all
> > > browsers.  Does the web server you're using support server-side-includes?
> > 
> > Server side includes tend to make pages uncachable,
> 
> How so ?  In fact, what is the difference between a page with an SSI and 
> one that was simply written that way?  We have a fair amount of SSI on 
> http://sailor.lib.md.us/, and I bet you can't tell me which is, and which 
> isn't, ss-included. 

If the server doesn't send last-modified header, the page won't be cached
on proxy. SSI modules in general don't send that header precisely for
this reason.
> 
> >  and are not available to users of cheaper accounts.  
> 
> ???? Perhaps you are thinking of something else here ? Maybe a META 
> directive ??? 

That's another method. The effect is the same, more or less.

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