Question about ETag header?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:

> on the irc ( http://irclog.turbogears.org/archive/freenode/nginx ) have
> been asked if it is possible to send a ETag-Header when the request is a
> static file.
>
> I have seen that you handle the ETag header in proxied request, how
> difficult is it to add the calculation to the static files?!

It's easy to add, however, I do not see how ETag is better than
Last-Modified for static files.


Igor Sysoev
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