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

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:29:05PM +0100, PA wrote:
> On Feb 01, 2007, at 22:01, Rici Lake wrote:
> 
> >My understanding, which may not be right :), is that an Etag 
> >identifies an actual entity, not a transmission of an entity. So it's 
> >computed on the entire original object, not the transmission encoding 
> >of the object (or the bits of the object which are being transmitted 
> >on a range request.)
> 
> Hmmm... well someone named Henrik Nordstrom has this to say about this 
> issue:
> 
> "Content-Encoding MUST change ETag."
> -- Henrik Nordstrom, "ETags vs Variants", Tue, 24 Oct 2006
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2006OctDec/0114
> 
> Not sure who Henrik Nordstrom is though.

This is a discussion about changes to be made to 2616, isn't it? Maybe
he is is right about how it "should" be in the future, but he isn't
describing how it "is now".

Sam