Re: ETag & Content-Encoding

[Sam Ruby <rubys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Julian Reschke wrote:
> Franklin Tse wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a question about the Entity Tag (ETag) and the Content-Encoding.
> >
> > Should ETag be different when the content is transferred with 
> > different Content-Encoding?
>
> Yes.

That doesn't appear to be the way that Apache behaves with static content.

$ curl -s --head http://www.intertwingly.net/favicon.ico| grep ETag
ETag: "7809f-13e-bd7ebd80"

$ curl -s -H Accept-encoding:gzip,compress --head 
http://www.intertwingly.net/favicon.ico| grep ETag
ETag: "7809f-13e-bd7ebd80"

- Sam Ruby