- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:07:30 +0200
- To: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
On 23.07.2024 00:30, Michael Toomim wrote: > ... > The main problem with ETag, though, is that it marks *unique content* > rather than *unique time*. If you mutate the state of the resource from > "foo" to "bar" and then back to "foo", you'll revert to the same ETag, > even though this is at a different point in time. This breaks > collaborative editing algorithms. > ... It doen't have to be implemented that way. For instance, AFAIR, Subversion just uses the version number as Etag, and that's just fine. Best regards, Julian
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