(proposal) on metadata in documents

[Sean Conner]

It was thus said that the Great smlckz at tilde.pink once stated:
> I am proposing a convention of putting human and machine readable metadata 
> in documents (in ''geminisphere''). This is completely optional for 
> document writers.
> 
> The metadata should be placed at the end of the document so that the 
> viewers can view the content first.
> 
> For now, I am proposing the following metadata for inclusion in documents 
> (all of which is optional):
> 
> *  the date (and maybe time) when the document was published
> 
> *  the date (and maybe time) when the document was last modified
> 
> *  copyright information and/or license of the document
> 
> IMO, we should use ISO 8601 for the date/time in metadata.
> 
> The clients may use the information, but may not hide the metadata.
> The spiders/bots can also use the information
> (when indexing/archiving documents) as well.
> 
> Now the question for you is how the metadata is formatted?
> Please share your thoughts on it.

  Okay.

Created 2020-11-14T17:34:19-0500
Modified 2020-11-14T17:50:03-0500
Copyright 2020 by Sean Conner.

  The timestamp was created with the following Unix command: "date +%FT%T%z"
so that's pretty easy.  And you know, if you move the lines to the top of
the document, put the Modified: header first, a client would only have to
read the first 34 bytes of the document to see if it's modified, and if it
hasn't since the client last read it, the client can close the connection. 
Caching solved!

  -spc (Add a Size header and you solve the size problem as well!)