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web page info date - is it correct?

Asked by Bill777

I've been looking at some quite old web pages.
When I check the "View page info", (& apart from the fact that it always annoyingly defaults to the security entry instead of "general")
the General - date Modified is ALWAYS TODAY.

Now, it may be that everyone is reviewing their webpages & modding each of them daily (really?),
or it may be that FF is picking up the wrong date.

Which is it?

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

The modification time is probably due to caching between you and the server, such as via a transparent proxy server.

Unless you bypass the proxy, this won't go away.
http://blog.fastolfe.net/2007/02/firefox-date-handling-in-page-info.html

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Bill777 (billachenal) said : 		#2

Thanks, and thanks for the link on cache expiry timing.

I have my FF set to NoProxy,
Just to be sure I by-pass cache.
It's my own router, no company or local proxy.
Need I do more? I suppose it's just possible the ISP is monkeying with something; it seems unlikely but possible.

Then I access this very page, for example:
 I'm re-reading it on 25Jun11, it hasn't changed since "mycae said on 2011-06-23"
The FF info says: Modified: Sat 25 Jun 2011 06:24:37 PM UTC
which just happens to be the (incorrectly set, out by one hour) clocktime my computer is showing.

I go away for a while, return to this page,
The FF info says: Modified: Sat 25 Jun 2011 08:09:58 PM UTC (quite possibly my latest refresh)
                                            O/S clocktime now is 08:46
I refresh page again, FF info says: Modified: ............ 08:46:31 PM UTC

F5 or ctrlf5, same thing.

That's to say, it's the 'time now', not the date the page was modified.

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