[Zope3-dev] Re: [Zope-dev] let's just get rid of it (was: Last-modified and bobobase_modification_time)

[Chris Withers]

I dunno about anyone else, but I'd _really_ like to see what Adrian is
suggesting form part of Zope 3.

It's always bugged me that's Zope's HEAD results are often quite meaningless
with respect to content-type, last modified, etc. Having an API to return a
specific HEAD for a specific page would be really cool :-)

How can we make this happen?

cheers,

Chris

Adrian Hungate wrote:
> 
> Just a follow up to Leonardo's comments. It would seem that DTML, zpt, or
> script (python or whatever) pages should seem, to the browser, to always be
> new. Things like Portal Documents (In CMF) are non-programatic (in fact, I
> think most of the standard Portal types are static), and so they ought to be
> able to rely on their modification date/time.
> 
> If all static objects defined (via a mixin, or just compliance with a new
> API, whatever), a method (for example) "LastModified", then the HEAD could
> return the correct time/date if this is found, and the current time/date in
> all other cases. This would allow authors who want to add this functionality
> the option of doing so, but would not cause major lossage if they did not.
> 
> Adrian...