kdelibs/khtml/xml

[Tobias Anton]

On Monday 12 August 2002 12:40, Tobias Anton wrote:
> On Thursday 08 August 2002 22:20, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Thursday 08 August 2002 07:10 am, Tobias Anton wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 07 August 2002 19:03, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 07 August 2002 05:57 am, Tobias Anton wrote:
> > > > > The correct approach would be to pass the creation time
> > > > > of the cache entry up to KHTML. This would also solve some other
> > > > > glitches, i.e. we could address the problem that images in the
> > > > > loader cache don't expire at all. (at least if this has not been
> > > > > changed in the loader)
> > > >
> > > > The loader cache _does_ expire images.
> > >
> > > You're right; that was new to me.
> > > But still, it doesn't pick up the expire dates from the metatags.
> > > In order to correctly calculate the moment when to re-request an image,
> > > KHTML must know about the creation date of the cache entry fille,
> > > because expiredate = creationtime + expiretimeout.
> > >
> > > That's why I have made a small patch that passes the cache entry file
> > > creation time in the metadata.
> > >
> > > Would you have a look at it?
> >
> > I have commited code for the http slave already.
> >
> > Can you test whether the attached khtml patch does what it should?
>
> I tested a bit and found out that docLoader->setExpireDate() is called with
> a relative expire date while the expire date is zero.
> This leads to wrong absolute expire dates both in the document and in the
> embedded images.

Oh silly me!
I failed to realize that my freshly compiled kio_http was not in use yet.
I need to recompile & install some more stuff to do further testing. You'll 
hear from me after that.

Tobias