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Garren Smith commented on COUCHDB-2978:
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I can take a look at this next week and get a fix in.
> Stale ETags are re-used for _local docs
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> Key: COUCHDB-2978
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2978
> Project: CouchDB
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: HTTP Interface
> Reporter: Nolan Lawson
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 1.7.0
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> CouchDB re-uses the same ETags for _local documents even when the content of
> the _local document has changed, meaning that clients who cache based on the
> ETag may end up with permanently stale content. To reproduce the bug, it's
> simply:
> 1. Create a _local doc
> 2. Fetch the doc, ETag is "0-1"
> 3. Delete the database (or the _local doc)
> 4. Recreate the database (or the _local doc), insert a *changed* _local doc
> 5. Fetch the doc, ETag is still "0-1" and therefore the client may end up
> with a stale version.
> Here are related issues in PouchDB and WebKit for further details:
> - [PouchDB bug|https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/5010]
> - [WebKit bug|https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156048]
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