From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 13:02:50 GMT
Subject: Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)
Message-ID: <200612101402.51363.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <457C0060.3050605@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>> P.S. Any hints to how to do this with CGI Perl module?
> 
> It's impossible, Apache doesn't supply e-tag info to CGI programs.  (it 
> does supply HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL though apparently)

By ETag info you mean access to HTTP headers sent by browser
If-Modified-Since:, If-Match:, If-None-Match: do you?
 
It's a pity that CGI interface doesn't cover that...

> You could probably do it via mod_perl.

So the cache verification should be wrapped in if ($ENV{MOD_PERL}) ?
-- 
Jakub Narebski