[nginx] Adding Support for Weak ETags

[Aaron Peschel]

Hi Maxim,

Is the draft patch the same as the one that your posted in the
previous thread, or has more work been done since then?

-Aaron Peschel

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 05:39:40PM -0700, Aaron Peschel wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am interested in getting support for Weak ETags into the mainline.
>> There was some discussion previously in here previously that developed
>> a quick patch to add support. What additional functionality would be
>> required and what steps should be followed to get weak etag
>> functionality added to nginx? I am willing to do the work, I just need
>> some help with heading in the right direction.
>
> I had a quick draft patch sitting in my patchqueue since previous
> discussion (see [1]) to downgrade strict etags to weak ones.  It
> needs more work though, as I'm not yet happy with the code.  I
> hope I'll be able to find some time and finish it in 1.7.x.
>
> [1] http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2013-November/004523.html
>
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