Honoring ETag of cached content

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 10:29:06PM +0100, Marc Aymerich wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using nginx proxy pass to cache content of our dynamic web application.
> 
> In order to save some bandwidth our client application uses conditional
> requests based on ETag. However nginx ignores the ETag of cached pages :(
> 
> What would be required if I want to honor the ETag of cached pages? Is
> something that can be achieve by means of configuration? or I would need to
> write an nginx module in C?

It is expected to just work in 1.3.3+.  If you don't see it 
working, you may want to check the version you are running.

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Maxim Dounin
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