- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:56:09 +0200
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- CC: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>, nathan@webr3.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 06.04.2010 16:49, Jamie Lokier wrote: > ... > So back to an earlier query: When *would* you use weak etag > equivalence for different representations? If never, do weak etags > have any purpose at all? What would you use weak etags for? Because > if you only use the same weak etag when representations are identical, > you should be using strong etags instead for that. > ... For instance, the way you construct your representation may not guarantee binary identity, although the underlying resource is the same (think an XML database with a generic XML serializer, affecting, for instance, attribute order). Best regards, Julian
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