- From: Werner Baumann <werner.baumann@onlinehome.de>
- Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 22:14:11 +0100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > > In particular: > > - E does not apply to Rq > > - the presence of E in Rs does not necessarily imply that the body sent > with PUT was stored octet-by-octet > > - E does not depend on the request method, just on URI & selecting headers > I wonder what the intended use of this Etag, sent in response to a PUT-request, would be. As the entity, sent in a subsequent GET is not guaranteed to be equal to the body of the PUT-request, not a single client knows the entity. But clients get an entity-tag - for an unknown entity. What are they supposed to use it for? Werner
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