[nginx] Adding Support for Weak ETags

[Aaron Peschel]

Hello Maxim,

If you provide a copy of your newer draft patch, I am willing to spend
time helping improve it as you see fit.

-Aaron Peschel

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:35 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 06:20:24PM -0700, Aaron Peschel wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> The one I've posted is to ignore weak etags.  The draft one is to
> downgrade strict etags to weak etags.
>
>>
>> -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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