- From: Adrien W. de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:22:41 +0000
- To: ietf-http-wg-request@w3.org, bruce@perens.com
Hi Bruce, thanks for your answer.. but is this _weak_ ETags or just ETags in general? Regards Adrien ------ Original Message ------ >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Hi Adrien, > >I use ETag because of an insufficiency in RFC 2616 dates: their >resolution is one second. Updates to entities at sub-second intervals >are possible and would result in entities with the same Last-Modified >date. To be pedantically resolution-independent, I convert the date/time >to a string representation of a ratio. It's presently the number of >nanoseconds since the epoch. I encode that and an entity serial number >in the ETag. > >If HTTP dates are extended to have sub-second resolution, I will >probably be able to do without ETags. > > Thanks > > Bruce > > >
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