Nolan Lawson created COUCHDB-2978: ------------------------------------- Summary: ETag should not be sent for _local docs Key: COUCHDB-2978 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2978 Project: CouchDB Issue Type: Bug Components: HTTP Interface Reporter: Nolan Lawson
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] -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)