clearing etags when gzipping

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:45:36PM -0500, Jeff Kaufman wrote:

> In ngx_http_gzip_header_filter there is a call to ngx_http_clear_etag.
> While this spec-compliant it loses the benefits of etags.  Two
> alternate approaches would be:
> 
>  - Only clear the etag if it's strong.
>  - Append ";gzip" to the etag, remove it from
>    incoming "if-none-match" requests.
> 
> Would a patch to implement one of these be welcome?

Appending ";gzip" would not work as a result of a gzip might be 
different depending on gzip settings.  The only aproach which will 
work is to change etag to a week one.  I'm ok with this, though it 
will generally need week etag support in various places.

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Maxim Dounin
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