- From: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:52:19 -0800
- To: Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@wsanchez.net>
- Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Dec 3, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote: > On Nov 29, 2005, at 1:43 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: >> >> Do other people consider this behavior to be incorrect according to >> the spec? (I'm assuming the explanation is correct and it aligns >> with what I've seen). But it seems that within-second changes do not >> guarantee "semantic equivalence" as required by HTTP. >> >> Lisa > > My best read of the spec leads me to believe that this is not > correct as per the spec. > > A more correct solution may be to append something to the strong > ETag if it is in the same timespan as now instead of using a weak ETag > in that case. > > However, this doesn't address the problem of correctly changing the > ETag if multiple changes occur within a subsecond timespan. But then, > neither does the weak ETag trick. > > If people agree that Apache HTTPd is incorrect here, I'll be happy > to implement, lobby for and commit an appropriate change for future > versions. > Wow, that would be fantastic. But I bet you'd get a strong reply if you asked such a question on the Apache list. Lisa
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