Re: Stronger requirements for ETags

Julian Reschke wrote:

>>From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org
>>[mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Elias Sinderson
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 5:15 PM
>>To: Webdav WG
>>Subject: Re: Stronger requirements for ETags
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>>In this respect the -03 language doesn't make them uncompliant, just 
>>weakly compliant, IMO.
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>What is "weak" compliance?
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Obviously not an *official* term!  :-)  Perhaps another way to put it 
would be to say that they would be 'barely' compliant? The general idea 
being that if a server were to satisfy all of the MUST level 
requirements but not the SHOULD level requirements it could be said to 
be compliant with the spec, but just barely compliant.

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>>Side note: Correct me if I'm wrong, but generating strong ETags just 
>>doesn't seem all that difficult to me...
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>Well, if this is the case, why do both mod_dav and IIS fail to do that?
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I can't speak for the server implementors, but I imagine the issue is 
one of performance (as opposed to difficulty).


Cheers,
Elias