Re: Summary of ETag related issues in RFC2518bis

If WebDAV were just for file systems, then life would be simpler,
but it's not, so we do have to deal with the head-hurting scenarios (:-).

Jim wrote on 12/20/2005 12:14:35 PM:

> 
> On Dec 20, 2005, at 8:58 AM, Stefan Eissing wrote:
> > Mathematically speaking if PUT(x) is the function in the server 
> > that takes the client input and modifies it, so that a subsequent 
> > GET(PUT(x)) defines the content a client gets back. We are talking 
> > about the situation where x != GET(PUT(x)) because the other case 
> > is trivial.
> 
> As the implementer of a WebDAV file system client, the whole idea of 
> x != GET(PUT(x)) makes my head hurt. For file systems to work, they 
> require x == GET(PUT(x)) if there have been no PUTs from other 
> clients between the PUT and the GET.
> 
> - Jim
>