Re: ETags, next call, was: Notes on call from today ...

+1 for "no".

Julian wrote on 12/13/2005 05:30:32 PM:

> 
> 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).