Will nginx support HTTP Etag ?

[Anton Yuzhaninov]

Phillip B Oldham wrote:
> Anton Yuzhaninov wrote:
>> If last-modifed date of file is not changed, bandwidth saved:
>>
>> client send in request
>>
>> header If-Modified-Since:
>>
>> and if time in request same as time of file modification on disk nginx 
>> send reply
>> HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified
>>
>> In general Etag for static files is not better than Last-Modified header.
>>
>> Etag is useful for dynamic content, when modify time is not known. In 
>> this case Etage can be generated from hash (md5/sha) of content.
> 
> Can this work with the memcached module in any way? For instance, if the 
> resource requested is in the memcached store then the 304 header is sent?
> 

AFAIK it is not possible now.

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  Anton Yuzhaninov