Re: Summary of ETag related issues in RFC2518bis

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Ted Hardie wrote:

> At 12:09 AM +0100 12/20/05, Yves Lafon wrote:
>>
>>
>> My implementation returns the ETag that asubsequent GET would see, so 
>> option (2). Ans I am in the case where the PUT entity and the served 
>> entity will not be the same, as there are CVS actions done during the 
>> PUT, so possible keyword extensions, etc...
>
> Are these property changes, or changes to the entity itself?  If to the 
> entity, how does a get-range work?

To the entity itself, a GET-range based on what has been PUT will 
obiouvsly fail (but it can fail for many other reason, like going through 
a proxy cache that goes offline between the PUT and the GET and serv stale 
content).

-- 
Yves Lafon - W3C
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Received on Wednesday, 21 December 2005 10:12:11 UTC