- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:26:42 -0500
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- CC: Arthur van Hoff <avh@marimba.com>, Push Workshop <www-push@w3.org>, DRP Mailing List <drp@marimba.com>
Larry Masinter wrote: > > It seems like what you want is some kind of globally unique > ETag, e.g., such that a cache could presume that if it had > data with same globally unique ETag anywhere in its cache, > it could use that data; on the other hand, you also want > those etags to be 'global' > > Since there are both 'strong' and 'weak' etags, maybe we could > add global etags too. For the most part, you can just use > them like (strong) etags, but the origin server guarantees > global uniqueness. Yeah verily. I heard that suggestion from somebody else in the last few days; the more I think about it, the more I like it. Proposed syntax, anyone? -- Dan http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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