Last-Modified

using meta tags to show a page as updated

[klauslovgreen]

Hi,

I tried playing around with:

<META NAME="Last-Modified" CONTENT="Thursday, May 08, 2003 15:20:00 GMT">

On Dynamic pages - but it does not seem to work - any suggestions?

Klaus

[DaveN]

on what server?

Dave

[klauslovgreen]

Linux - Apache - sorry should have mentioned

Klaus

[jdMorgan]

Klaus,

If this technique is going to work, I suspect you'll need to use <HTTP-EQUIV> type declarations, rather than <META NAME>.

Apache sets the Last-Modified record in the HTTP response header automatically. If you wish to override the info it sends for Last-Modified, try mod_headers [httpd.apache.org]. If you wish to generate your own HTTP headers, try mod_asis [httpd.apache.org].

HTH,
Jim

[AthlonInside]

Why would you need to have a last update date if it is really a dynamic genarated page?

My entire site has .php as extension and Google just like them. :)

[klauslovgreen]

I wanted to reduce bandwidth ref. Googleguy's suggestion - my pages are perl generated - and I was just wondering if there was an easy way of setting last modified using a tag in html rather than getting into mod_header etc..

Guess not..

Cheers
Klaus

[klauslovgreen]

It seems this might work:

<meta http-equiv="Last-Modified" content="Thu, 08 May 2003 14:00:00 GMT">

However is there a standard for the date/time format and if so is the above correct?

Klaus