Aki Niemi wrote:
> the semantic is not: hmm, a notification. I know they're supposed to be
> generated when state changes, but I'm not convinced the state has
> changed. I better match the etag with my stored history of etags to see
> whether the state *really* changed. Ha! A match! The notifier farm
> must've rebooted or the Lakers indeed fired Koby! I better calculate the
> nth decimal of pi, launch doom and busy-loop for the rest of the day.
> 
> There *really* is no comparison done; the subscriber throws away the old
> state when a NOTIFY is received, and stores the new state. (In the case
> of partial notification, there's also patching done, but still no
> comparison of etags). 

So if a changed etag doesn't mean the content changed, what the heck are
we sending an etag for?

--
Dean
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