- From: Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@wsanchez.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 16:21:24 -0800
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Jim Whitehead <ejw@soe.ucsc.edu>, Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>, WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > But with the current algorithm, the server can't return a strong > ETag, unless it blocks updates of that content for one second. That > may be unacceptable for some resources. Why couldn't it? Just append a suffix or prefix? What HTTPd does right now is use the same ETag string but prefixes it with 'W/' to make it weak. This accomplishes the goal of making the first-second etag different, but I think it should do that without making the tag weak, which implies something that isn't the case. -wsv
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