Re: [OT] HTTP etag vs if-* vs range vs content-encoding?

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:17:16PM +0100, PA wrote:
> This is not strictly speaking related to Lua per se, but... perhaps 
> someone could point me to the right direction considering the number of 
> HTTP implementations in Lua out there...
> 
> To make a long story short, I'm a bit confused on how the different 
> HTTP entity transformations work together... or not. In other words, 
> from an HTTP server perspective, how does one properly combine things 
> like entity tags, conditional requests, ranges and content encoding to 
> name a few?

I'm not sure I understand what you want to know, but I'm pretty sure I
couldn't answer the question in a short email :-) Are you going to
implement a server?

> Any pointers, guidelines, opinions or advises very welcome :)

You have read RFC2616, right?

>From a server perspective, many of the things you mention are optional,
such as conditional requests and ranges.

Sam