Re: Summary of ETag related issues in RFC2518bis

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote on 12/21/2005 10:02:23 AM:

> Dan Brotsky wrote:

> > I believe all of these things that clients want are accomplished with
> > what we have, as long as we have servers hand back strong etags on 
PUT.
> 
> 1) Servers may not be able to return strong ETags upon PUT. Again, let's 

> consider adding an indicator to PUT that let's the server know the 
> client really needs a strong ETag, so that the server can optimize it's 
> behavior for that case.

I agree.

> 2) It seems to me that we can't rule out that servers touch the ETag 
> upon PROPPATCH (for instance, because they are indeed updating metadata 
> in the file content, such as with XMP). In which case telling the server 

> to return the new ETag upon PUT seems to be a very good idea.

Did you mean, return the new ETag upon PROPPATCH?

Cheers,
Geoff