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Re: ETags and concurrency control




Mark Baker wrote:
...
 Not convinced. The current limitations on weak etags is just silly with
 the exception of If-Range..

 In my view it's a specification error that validators based on
 Last-Modified is allowed in more places than weak etag based ones.

Well said.  The meaning of any non-range conditional request message
using a weak validator is unambiguous.

So would this be a "clarify conformance criteria" fix per the charter?
 Those MUST NOTs seem to make no sense AFAICT, unless there's
implementation issues I'm not aware of.
...

+1.

In particular, it would be sufficient to *allow* servers to support weak entity tags in these cases. This change wouldn't break (IMHO) any existing compliant HTTP/1.1 client/server.

BR, Julian