- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 13:16:41 -0800
- To: WebDAV WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Accidentally caught by the spam filter. - Jim -----Original Message----- From: Douglas Steen [mailto:dsteen@ekeeper.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 6:30 AM To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org Subject: [Moderator Action] RE: ETags Unfortunately, I am pretty sure that Windows 2K will NOT update the eTag when dead properties change (I haven't checked recent versions, but older ones did not). Although I agree with Greg: it should. I don't know about other WebDAV-enabled servers. Douglas R. Steen dsteen@eKeeper.Com Drag-and-Drop Web Content Management http://www.eKeeper.com -----Original Message----- From: Greg Stein [mailto:gstein@lyra.org] Sent: Wednesday, 16 February, 2000 3:24 AM To: Kevin Wiggen Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org Subject: Re: ETags On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Kevin Wiggen wrote: > I searched the spec and could not find any special details on handling > ETags. > > Should an ETag value be updated when a dead property is changed? On the Probably, on the basis that an ETag represents the resource, and the properties are part of the resource. > same note, do most servers update the last-modified-date when a dead > property is changed? mod_dav does not update the last-modified-date. This is stated at http://www.webdav.org/mod_dav/#imp > Does Webdav want to take a stand one way or another? I'd prefer it didn't since it would be rather painful for me to support. But that's just me :-) Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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