Re: multiple changes to resources

ETags or other forms of conditional requests are parts of HTTP to allow 
you to protect against this: 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23#section-5.2

On 2013-09-18 13:47 , Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Has anyone thought about what happens when 2 or more people want to
> access a resource or container at the same time.
>
> Could we develop a race condition here?  Is there a basic strategy (such
> as in unix locking) that could be used to prevent such things.
>
> Has anyone considered this case at all?

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