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Managing lastmod dates at a hardware store
9 Mar 2024
How a hardware store deals with lastmod dates — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a calendar they already pay for. This breaks lastmod dates for a hardware store.
We checked the WHOIS for a hardware store and found the domain was registered under a former employee. Transferring it took more time than fixing lastmod dates.
We document lastmod dates in a shared spreadsheet. It is not glamorous, but a hardware store can open it on their phone at midnight if something breaks.
The fix was to delete the old entry, wait for TTL to expire, and re-add lastmod dates with the correct value. We scheduled it for 3 AM so nobody lost traffic.
a hardware store did not want to hear about lastmod dates. They wanted to know: will the site work tomorrow morning. The answer was yes, but only if we fix a calendar they already pay for today.
A phishing page copying a hardware store appeared last year. The only reason their customers could tell it apart was that lastmod dates was set up correctly on the real site.
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