Re: NEW ISSUE: example for matching functions, was: Weak and strong ETags

Sorry, I missed this because it was buried inside a thread. Now i71;
   http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i71


On 28/05/2007, at 4:36 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently going through <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/ 
> rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-latest.html>, checking for  
> changes that currenly do not appear in the issues list at <http:// 
> www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/>.
>
> This is one of these... (in context: <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ 
> HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/draft-lafon-rfc2616bis-latest.html#rfc.section. 
> 13.3.3>):
>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Hi,
>> given the fact that more than a few persons were confused about  
>> the weak matching function, I'd propose to add an example here, to  
>> appear below the definitions in 13.3.3:
>>     The example below shows the results for a set of entity tag  
>> pairs,
>>     and both the weak and strong comparison function results:
>>          +--------+--------+-------------------+-----------------+
>>          | ETag 1 | ETag 2 | Strong Comparison | Weak Comparison |
>>          +--------+--------+-------------------+-----------------+
>>          | W/"1"  | W/"1"  | no match          | match           |
>>          |        |        |                   |                 |
>>          | W/"1"  | W/"2"  | no match          | no match        |
>>          |        |        |                   |                 |
>>          | W/"1"  | "1"    | no match          | match           |
>>          |        |        |                   |                 |
>>          | "1"    | "1"    | match             | match           |
>>          +--------+--------+-------------------+-----------------+
>> Best regards, Julian
>
> (a) Do we have agreement that this example is correct?
>
> (b) Is there consensus to have it included?
>
> Best regards, Julian
>


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