- From: Yves Lafon <ylafon@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:43:40 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
- cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, nathan@webr3.org, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, 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.
Imagine a server side include in an HTML page with a datetime displayed
for the user, the application can consider it meaningless, and use a weak
ETag to signal that the page won't be byte-for-byte equivalent.
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Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras.
~~Yves
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