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 - W3CReceived on Thursday, 25 April 2002 03:40:06 GMT
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