Re: last-modified header Apache

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Brian wrote:

Our web site server does not include a last-modified header for html
files (text/html).

Nor a ETag, evidently. You know, you might be better advised to
consult an appropriate servers group about this.

It does return them for .css files and for images. A
Google search of this group suggests that this may be because the server
is processing static html files as if they were dynamically created,

I think you've put your finger on the problem in principle, but
I can't really tell you more than what you already know, on the basis
of the evidence as it can be seen.

If they had XBitHack enabled, then you would get this effect by
setting the x-bit(s) on your unix files. Do you have any way of
looking at the unix mode bits of your files as they exist on the
server? This is only a hunch, and more likely to be wrong than right,
I suppose, but if it's not too much trouble, try setting chmod -x on
the appropriate files and see if it makes any difference. That's
assuming that your files don't actually want any SSI processing.

Other than that, you'd need to know what handlers are active on this
type of files.