Re: Broken Etag on /download page

On 20/07/2026 20:00, Marius Bakke via Xapian-discuss wrote:
> Thehttps://xapian.org/download page sends a broken "Etag" header:
>
> ETag: "27e8-653618960998d;65361896106ec
>
> Note the missing end quote.  This may break some poorly-implemented parsers
> that check for updates...

Hi Marius - thanks for letting us know. This seems to be a bug in 
Apache, I think related to MultiViews (which is how /download is 
presented - /download.html doesn't have this problem).

I believe it's the one fixed in this change 
https://github.com/apache/httpd/commit/7808644f0a321ed0d59927a09a000b74fbae8f78, 
Feb 20th this year. That appears to be only for 2.5 (that file doesn't 
exist in 2.4.68 from what I can tell), which isn't packaged for Debian 
yet. If it causes problems for people, I can try to figure out how to 
patch the 2.4 series `etag_end` or its equivalent.

James