Re: --etag-compare vs. --time-cond
Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <[email protected]>
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On 3/4/23 15:41:44, Timothe Litt via curl-users wrote: > ... > Section 6 also discusses precedence and evaluation order. > > As I said, read the whole RFC. > > Your test isn't valid. An E-Tag validator is only meaningful to the server that sent it. > ... > For example, consider a validator that internally looks like <mtime>-<size>-<expires>. If the server doesn't keep a side database of validators, it might try to parse it, and since "wombat" isn't in that format, give up. I'm calling it the site. Another URL on a different site let ETag dominate and didn't give up on "wombat", not calling it a matcn. -- Thanks again, gil -- Unsubscribe: https://lists.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-users Etiquette: https://curl.se/mail/etiquette.html