Weak ETags and on-the-fly gzipping

[grosser]

There take this patch and just apply it :)


--- nginx-1.3.8/src/http/modules/ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.c
2012-07-07 17:22:27.000000000 -0400
+++
nginx-1.3.8-weak-etags-shorter/src/http/modules/ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.c2012-11-21
17:05:12.758389000 -0500
@@ -306,7 +306,15 @@

ngx_http_clear_content_length(r);
ngx_http_clear_accept_ranges(r);
- ngx_http_clear_etag(r);
+
+ /* Clear etags unless they're marked as weak (prefixed with 'W/') */
+ h = r->headers_out.etag;
+ if (h && !(h->value.len >= 3 &&
+ h->value.data[0] == 'W' &&
+ h->value.data[1] == '/' &&
+ h->value.data[2] == '"')) {
+ ngx_http_clear_etag(r);
+ }

return ngx_http_next_header_filter(r);
}

Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,240120,243846#msg-243846