Re: HTTP 1.1 issue 02: 3.11 Entity Tags

From: Ross Patterson <ROSSP@SS1.Reston.VMD.Sterling.COM> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 98 12:11:58 EST Message-Id: <199810281714.RAA10950@hplb.hpl.hp.com> To: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thursday, 2 February 2023 18:43:05 UTC

jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:

>The message was empty (by the time it got to me).
>
>What's the problem?

Here's the original note:

>In section 3.11 "Entity Tags", the statement
>
>   "A given entity tag value MAY be used for entities obtained by
>   requests on different URIs without implying anything about the
>   equivalence of those entities."
>
>confuses me to the point of being unable to parse it, let alone
>summarize it.

Ross Patterson
VM Software Division
Sterling Software, Inc.