Header ‘Content-Length’ and ‘Last-modified’ is not present in XML feed

Hi Steve,

For what channel did you create a product feed?

Best,
Eva

Hi Eva

This one was for catch.com.au using a custom feed…

Cheers,
Steve

I am not entirely sure but I think this could have something to do with your server settings not transferring the last-modified and content-length headers. This does not seem like something we can fix in the plugin.

Best,
Eva

Hi Eva

Thanks for the quick reply – I’ll contact my hosting provider..

Cheers,
STeve

Ok, let me know what they say. If it turns out that we do not to make some changes to the plugin we’d be happy to help out.

Have a great weekend,
Eva

I am going to close this issue now for housekeeping reasons. Please feel free to reach out again in-case you have more questions or need more help.

All the best,
Eva

Hi Eva

I’ve been reading about headers such as content-length and last-modified – shouldn’t these should be defined by the plugin itself?

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.13

Cheers,
Steve

Hi Steve,

Tricky question this one ?? We have done some more research ourselves and it turned out that Chrome had the answer. See this screenshot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3dbk6g39hoct2n/response-headers.png?dl=0

We generated a XML file with our plugin to see what kind of headers it returned and, as the screenshow shows, it perfectly shows the content-length and last-modified.

That being said:
– are you sure the headers are not correct?
– could still be caused by your apache configs.

Have a great evening,
Eva

Hi Eva

Back again! ??

I’ve been chatting with the Cloudflare team and they’ve said the following:

For both of the files you mentioned I can see the Content-Length served by Cloudflare, but indeed it is present only when the request asks for compression.

So yes, you would need to check with your developer or the administrator of your webserver.

I’ll contact SiteGround – are you able to talk to your devs to see if there is anything on their end they can do too?

Cheers,
Steve

Hi Eva

Hope you are well!

Just seeing if you’ve had a chance to chat with the dev team re: this?

Cheers,
Steve

Hi Steve,

By default apache sends content-length and last-modified headers. In your case this does not seem to be happening so this needs to be changed in the apache settings of your webserver. Unfortunately we are no server-admin-experts so changes are very slim we can actually help with this.

All the best,
Eva

Assuming the issue at hand has been solved I will close the issue for now. Please feel free to reach out when you need more help.

Have a wonderful day,
Eva