[Ltru] "Conditional GET" now broken on IANA HTTP server
Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 22 July 2008 09:14 UTC
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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
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Subject: [Ltru] "Conditional GET" now broken on IANA HTTP server
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Reported to IANA. Ticket [IANA #180667]
--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 03:04:07PM -0700, Michelle Cotton <michelle.cotton@icann.org> wrote a message of 115 lines which said: > As first announced in April 2008, IANA is improving the formatting > of its protocol registries by migrating the source format of these > registries to structured XML format. The change had an unexpected side-effect: registries which have *not* been modified (such as the Language Subtag Registry, http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry) now have a Last-Modified of today (the file seems to be recreated each day). For instance, the Language Subtag Registry has: Last-Modified: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:10:08 GMT while its last modification is from 2008-05-07. This breaks "conditional GET", a feature of HTTP which is very useful to avoid overloading the IANA servers. For instance, this requests used to download the registry only if it were new: curl --silent --output language-subtag-registry.TMP --compressed \ --referer http://ltru.generic-nic.net/ --proxy '' --time-cond 20080507 -- http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry but it now downloads it each time I run it. Do note that the successor of RFC 4646 will make this registry ten times bigger and so the issue is serious.--- End Message ---
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