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reported entity tags differ between HEAD/GET and PROPFIND





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-01-29 18:29 -------
I'm not sure that I agree with the analysis. First of all, RFC2616 doesn't 
define a specific resolution for etags.

(all this probably only applies to the fs backend)

The issue here seems to be that the resource's etag starts it's life as a weak 
one, and then turns into a strong etag after some delay. This works fine if you 
discover an already existing resource using GET/HEAD/PROPFIND, but leads to 
ugly results if a client takes the entity tag returned by a PUT as validator 
for subsequent PUT operations (because upon PUT, the entity tag returned is 
always a weak one, because it's "fresh").

As far as the If-* headers defined in RFC2616 are concerned (not the If: 
defined in RFC2518), strong comparison should be applied to etags (end of para 
13.3.3).

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