Re: #290: Motivate one-year limit for Expires

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

On 24/07/2011, at 2:15 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:

> If my server emits an Expires header with a date in 2013 because of reboot
> with a wrong date, some caches might cache the content for a long time. Even
> if I fix the date when I notice it, some caches will still have the issue. I'm
> not saying this is something critical, I'm saying that I think that's one of
> the concerns you quoted when saying that longer TTLs are generaly caused by
> clock errors.


True, but the date skew *should* be detected if the age is correctly calculated.

Cheers,

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