Re: ETags, next call, was: Notes on call from today ...

   Yeah, you have no way to know that you will ever get a strong ETag  
unless you are depending on a specific server implementation.

	-wsv


On Dec 13, 2005, at 2:34 PM, Geoffrey M Clemm wrote:

>
> +1 for "no".
>
> Julian wrote on 12/13/2005 05:30:32 PM:
>
> >
> > Cullen Jennings wrote:
> > > I have still been looking for an answer on a question I asked  
> long ago on
> > > this. If a client needs a strong ETag, and it gets a weak ETag,  
> should the
> > > client poll the server until it gets a strong ETag? This seems  
> to be the
> > > recommendation but no one seem to say "yes" or "no" to this?
> >
> > The answer is "no", unless the client happens to know that it  
> talks to a
> > server that indeed upgrades the weak to a strong one later (which in
> > general will not be the case).

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