Re: 54th IETF Meeting Information, and RFC2518 open issues

Am Donnerstag den, 25. April 2002, um 17:38, schrieb Jason Crawford:

>
>>>> Having never encountered a client using them, I propose to
>>>> drop ETags in IF headers.
>>>
>>> OK; if we drop ETags in If headers how are servers intended to handle
>>> requests using the old syntax, or do you believe that is not an
>>> issue (if
>>> so, why)?
>>
>> We can handle this similar to the "keepalive" body for COPY requests.
>
> Obviously if no clients use it, it's not a big issue, but please 
> explain
> further.

As I wrote earlier today, Greg changed my mind on this matter.
There is a use case which cannot be covered by existing HTTP features.

So I'd vote for keeping the If: header as it is.

//Stefan