On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:54:39PM -0500, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: > "Roy T. Fielding" wrote: > > > > Good idea -- I was trying to keep the most relevant part of the name > > at the front so that it is easy to find in the documentation, but > > FileETagValue is better than the alternatives. Actually, just FileETag > > (with one option being "none") would be best. > > And how should 'FileETag None' be interpreted? As no ETag at > all, or a blank one, or what? (null), '[W/]""', or something else?
No ETag at all. I'm not wild about this idea -- I just thought of it for completeness sake. > The former (omit the ETag field from the response header) will > require a MMN bump, even though it seems to match the keyword > intent more closely.. It could be done with notes or an env variable, but we could just skip it for now. I wasn't thinking of doing it for 1.3. ....Roy
