Re^2: How to get web creation date from webserver?

Dear pg,

I am getting this below output. In that date showing todays date. If i give any url i am getting today's date. But, the pages had been created long days ago. I want the creation date of the webpage in that server. Please help me any other possiblities

here
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:48:24 GMT
Server: Apache
Vary: Accept-Encoding
test: %{HOSTNAME}e
Last-Modified: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 04:36:44 GMT
ETag: "84cadf-ada8-430aa7dc"
Accept-Ranges: none
Content-Length: 44456
Content-Type: text/html
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Re^3: How to get web creation date from webserver? by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 23, 2005 at 05:28 UTC
Could it be that these pages are dynamically generated and as such do not really exist on the file-system, other than in a virtual sense? That could explain you always see todays date: the files were freshly baked to your request. CountZero "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law	[reply]
Re^3: How to get web creation date from webserver? by pg (Canon) on Aug 23, 2005 at 05:14 UTC
Last-Modified gives you the time when the content was BELIEVED to be last modified (or the time the current content is created). If you want the exact time when the original content (which is probably gone already) was first created, I don't believe HTTP specification provides that. However you have to re-think whether that time is meaningful. Well, if you actually have access to the server, that will be a different story, and you can just use whatever command the OS provides you to check, if the content is not created on fly.	[reply]