Posted by John Kelly on 09/25/06 00:54

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:51:50 +0100, Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk>
wrote:

>>Why is the date: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT used as the value for
>>anti-caching Expires: headers?

> It was added in this revision:
> http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/php-src/ext/session/session.c?r1=1.80&r2=1.81
>
> ... by CVS user "sas", who is Sascha Schumann. The date appears to be Sascha's
>birthday:
>
> http://www.phpbuilder.com/lists/php3-list/199911/3159.php

Andy, thanks for the answer.

I'm glad to know the reason, silly though it is.

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