Re: nnrss doesn't use If-modified-since

[Andreas Seltenreich]

[I'm only following up to a subset of the issues]

Dan Jacobson writes:

> Can you believe doing
> $ http_proxy=http://localhost:8080/ emacs-snapshot -f gnus
> causes
> GET http://localhosthttp://localhost:8080/ HTTP/1.1...
> or at least that is what tcpflow shows.

AFAICT this has been fixed recently (<news:address@hidden>).

> Also, observing repeated hitting of g (gnus-group-get-new-news) with tcpflow
> shows that the same request and the same response are exchanged, with
> _no use of If-modified-since_ etc. traffic reducing features!

With mm-url-use-external set to nil, you could use the url package's
caching feature to minimize traffic (M-x customize-group RET url-cache RET).
It will then send proper If-modified-since headers.

regards,
andreas