On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 15:39:03 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >The browser can use the "If-none-match: <etag>" to request that a 304 >response be returned if the object's ETag is the same. > >So in this case, it really isn't clear yet whether John's browser had a >bug, or IBM's server did, unless you were to look at the headers for the >request that returned a stale document. > OK. The server seems to be working right. Which browser?:
Etag 8+ curl -sS -D/dev/fd/3 '-HIf-None-Match: "8cdf2-63c3e-54a516614d140"' http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z3f113.pdf HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 03:07:44 GMT Connection: close ETag: "8cdf2-63c3e-54a516614d140" Etag 9+ curl -sS -D/dev/fd/3 '-HIf-None-Match: "Test"' http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z3f113.pdf HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 03:16:36 GMT Last-Modified: Thu, 09 Mar 2017 19:39:09 GMT ETag: "8cdf2-63c3e-54a516614d140" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 408638 Connection: close Content-Type: application/pdf curl iis cool. Thanks for the tip, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
