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nginx serving files from the store returns Last-Modified = Epoch

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From: Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37207 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37207: guix.gnu.org returns Last-Modified = Epoch
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 09:24:59 +0100

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Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Christopher Baines <mail <at> cbaines.net> skribis:
>
>> So I think removing the Last-Modified header from the responses will fix
>> the issue with the Repology fetcher (as it will stop thinking it's
>> already fetch the file, since it was last modified in 1970), instead it
>> will just always process the file.
>>
>> Removing the Last-Modified header, and maybe the ETag as well from
>> responses should avoid the issue with web browsers using a cached
>> version of the page when they probably shouldn't.
>
> It would prevent client-side caching altogether.  So perhaps we can do
> that as a stopgap (and it has the advantage of requiring only a tiny
> config change).

Great, I've finally got around to sending a patch for this now.

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