- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:30:32 +0100
- To: Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>
- CC: Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>, Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@apple.com>, Geoffrey M Clemm <geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com>, WebDav <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Cullen Jennings wrote: > I have still been looking for an answer on a question I asked long ago on > this. If a client needs a strong ETag, and it gets a weak ETag, should the > client poll the server until it gets a strong ETag? This seems to be the > recommendation but no one seem to say "yes" or "no" to this? The answer is "no", unless the client happens to know that it talks to a server that indeed upgrades the weak to a strong one later (which in general will not be the case). Best regards, Julian
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