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-rw-r--r--src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp13
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp b/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp
index 108ac68..7c90f68 100644
--- a/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp
+++ b/src/network/access/qnetworkaccesshttpbackend.cpp
@@ -1001,14 +1001,11 @@ QNetworkCacheMetaData QNetworkAccessHttpBackend::fetchCacheMetaData(const QNetwo
if (hop_by_hop)
continue;
- // for 4.6.0, we were planning to not store the date header in the
- // cached resource; through that we planned to reduce the number
- // of writes to disk when using a QNetworkDiskCache (i.e. don't
- // write to disk when only the date changes).
- // However, without the date we cannot calculate the age of the page
- // anymore.
- //if (header == "date")
- //continue;
+ // we are currently not using the date header to determine the expiration time of a page,
+ // but only the "Expires", "max-age" and "s-maxage" headers, see
+ // QNetworkAccessHttpBackend::validateCache() and below ("metaData.setExpirationDate()").
+ if (header == "date")
+ continue;
// Don't store Warning 1xx headers
if (header == "warning") {