On 12/09/2006 07:02 PM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > On 12/9/06, Ruediger Pluem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for giving the pointer to ap_meets_conditions. So content >> compressed >> by mod_deflate would not stand conditional requests based on ETags any >> longer. >> That would be bad. Would it help if we simply unset the ETag in >> mod_deflate? >> mod_filter does this in these situations or does this have any other >> nasty >> side effects? > > > AIUI, many caches do not allow the response to be cached at all if it > doesn't have an ETag. This is why it was brought up that not doing
AFAICS this is not the case for mod_cache. As long as at least one of the following headers is present mod_cache can cache the response if all other conditions needed are true: ETag Last-Modified Expires Regards Rüdiger
