Hi,

The ETag is calculated using the last modified time, I do not have the
specifics of the algorithm. It is safe to assume that is different for
the same object, but not for different objects.

We have some more information here:
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/reference.html#ResourceVersioning

Cheers,
Julian

On Nov 20, 5:59 am, lcf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Probably wrong place for asking... sorry if so. I'm interested - how
> exactly etags are calculated?
> Are they just random strings? I thought they were not because in that
> case, theoretically speaking, version 1 etag could be equal to version
> 3 etag (of some contact entry for example).
> So, I decided that all etags are different (that also means - not
> random) and here is my question - how are they calculated, what's the
> algorithm?
>
> Thanks.

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