- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 09:20:29 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Greg Stein <gstein@lyra.org>
- cc: "Webdav WG (E-mail)" <w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org>
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Greg Stein wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:53:34PM +0200, Stefan Eissing wrote: > > Am Montag den, 22. April 2002, um 18:36, schrieb Lisa Dusseault: > >... > > If headers with ETags do not add any value to the protocol. For > > GET rfc2616 already defines If-Match and friends. Since the ETag > > only captures content changes (property changes have undefined > > effect on ETags), IF headers for ETag lack a use case. > > An etag in an If: header can be used to assert that a file has been > unchanged since you last fetched it. Specifically, that you still have the > locktoken *or* (you lost it and) it is unchanged. You can also see the following note on this subject: http://www.w3.org/1999/04/Editing/ Thanks, -- Yves Lafon - W3C
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