Re: how to keep faq on the reader?

mathew (mathew@mantis.co.uk)
20 Jun 1994 11:33:41 +0100

Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ]
Next message: david@edmail.MIT.EDU: "Subscribe to..."
Previous message: Peter Wake: "UNSUBSCRIBE"
Maybe in reply to: r.boys@genie.geis.com: "how to keep faq on the reader?"

In article <199406181537.AA097933841@relay2.geis.com>,
<r.boys@genie.geis.com> wrote:
>Hello everybody:
>
>The first line on my faq (comp.sys.m68k) was
>
>"Expires: Mon, June 20 1994 00:00:00 EDT"
>
>Someone told me this would keep my faq in the reader until that time.
> I checked an account with a TIN reader and today (June 18) the faq is gone.

Yes, you didn't get the right format. The format is defined in RFC
1036, and updated in RFC 1123. The correct version of your line would
be:

Expires: Mon, 20 Jun 1994 00:00:00 -0400

Note that the day and month are truncated to three characters. The
above is the only valid format. It's best to get a program like
post_faq.pl to generate it for you.

Having said that, some broken sites ignore the "Expires" line. I take
the view that that's their problem (and their users' problem).

mathew

-- 
http://www.mantis.co.uk/~mathew/
Looking for: Bug-tracking systems for UNIX, DOS and Windows

Next message: david@edmail.MIT.EDU: "Subscribe to..."
Previous message: Peter Wake: "UNSUBSCRIBE"
Maybe in reply to: r.boys@genie.geis.com: "how to keep faq on the reader?"

[ Usenet Hypertext FAQ Archive | Search Mail Archive | Authors | Usenet ]
[ 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 ]