ons 2010-03-17 klockan 03:53 +0000 skrev Amos Jeffries:

> During the infected period imaginary-HAVP scans the documents and sends a
> large "clean" prefix to all visitors.
>  BUT... aborts when the appended infection is detected. Browser is lucky
> enough to notice the file is incomplete and retires later with a range
> request for the missing bit.
> 
>  a) during the infected period the fetched ranges will never succeed.

ok.

>  b) after the infection is cleaned up the file will pass through
> imaginary-HAVP and client will get a truncated version. With complete-file
> being indicated.

Only if the server is seriously broken and uses the same cache validator
for this modified response.

This is exacly why ETag SHOULD be used and not Last-Modified.

Regards
Henrik

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