[nginx] Adding Support for Weak ETags

[Albert Casademont Filella]

Another one here using dynamic etags generated by the backend that are lost
during the gzip compression; it would indeed ve very nice to have the weak
etag support. The Last Modified header is not always a viable option.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Adam Arsenault <
adam.arsenault at hootsuite.com> wrote:

> Hi Maxim/Aaron,
>
> Would love to see support for Weak Etags in nginx. The lack of support for
> gzip + etags has been a major problem for us as we use etags for caching
> (and need gzip to work with it) in a bunch of different place in our
> application.
>
> Let me know if there is anything I can do to help out here as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Adam Arsenault
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Aaron Peschel <aaron.peschel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Maxim Dounin
>> >> > http://nginx.org/
>> >> >
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