Re: [Zope-dev] Etag support in page templates

2003-09-16 Thread Shane Hathaway
Jamie Heilman wrote: Tres Seaver wrote: The empty E-tag exists to support *very* broken clients (MSOffice over WebFolders); it should be removed, perhaps with a knob which allows re-enabling it for the sites that actually have people editing content using those clients. Yeah it should be

Re: [Zope-dev] Etag support in page templates

2003-09-16 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
In the case of empty Etags, I think that sending an empty header has been shown to be the wrong choice. I suggest it should be removed from the head and the 2_7 branch. For future reference to any committers: if you modify any HTTP headers sent by Zope, you very likely ought to discuss it

Re: [Zope-dev] Etag support in page templates

2003-09-16 Thread Jamie Heilman
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: Along with that the MS Author Via header garbage should at least be governed by some configuration flag. No, no, no, you're not seeing the bigger picture... you don't need configuration flags for any of that stuff. It just shouldn't exist, period. If people need to

Re: [Zope-dev] Etag support in page templates

2003-09-16 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: Along with that the MS Author Via header garbage should at least be governed by some configuration flag. No, no, no, you're not seeing the bigger picture... you don't need configuration flags for any of that stuff. It just shouldn't exist, period. If people need to clutter

Re: [Zope-dev] Etag support in page templates

2003-09-16 Thread Jamie Heilman
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: I'm not looking at the big picture. I'm trying to avoid complaints from people that for one reason or another use those broken M$ clients. Think about it: Solution A) # Directive: send-empty-etag # # Description: # Add an empty Etag HTTP header to