(from inspection of the bug report list, this is related to but not the same as #67857 and #177200)

I'm trying to monitor updates to three 'unstable' packages using trusty
old "websec" (http://baruch.ev-en.org/proj/websec/) and noticed that the
http://packages.debian.org/ webserver returns "HTTP/1.1 304 Not
Modified" responses where it shouldn't as can be seen from the example
using "wget" below. Is it possible to fix this w/o me having to turn off
timestamp checking? Thanks in advance!  :)


[So Apr 18 09:43:55 ueberall@enton .websec]$ ll archive/deb-sid-jrejdk.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 ueberall ueberall 16359 2010-03-25 18:18 archive/deb-sid-jrejdk.html
[So Apr 18 09:44:04 ueberall@enton .websec]$ wget -O /tmp/deb-sid-jrejdk.html --header="If-Modified-Since: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:18:19 GMT" -S http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/sun-java6-jre
--2010-04-18 09:44:14--  http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/sun-java6-jre
Resolving packages.debian.org (packages.debian.org)... 194.177.211.202,
128.31.0.49, 87.106.64.223, ...
Connecting to packages.debian.org
(packages.debian.org)|194.177.211.202|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
  Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:44:00 GMT
  Server: Apache
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
2010-04-18 09:44:14 ERROR 304: Not Modified.
[So Apr 18 09:55:00 ueberall@enton .websec]$ diff archive/deb-sid-jrejdk.html /tmp/deb-sid-jrejdk.html | head -8 | tail -4
15c12
< <meta name="Keywords" content="Debian,  sid, us, non-free, java, 6.18-4">
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Ad astra, Markus

retitle 578242 packages.debian.org: package information pages never expire (w.r.t. HTTP Time-Stamping)

Thanks for your report.

Though there is no doubt about the bug itself (the main being it will
affect proxies and web browser caches), note there are better ways to
achieve your goal:
- monitor instead the changelog page :
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/non-free/s/sun-java6/current/changelog
- subscribe to the PTS (Packages Tracking System):
http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sun-java6.html

Note that changelog/copyright pages are not affected, since these html
pages are static.
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