Re: --etag-compare vs. --time-cond

Paul Gilmartin via curl-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.curl.general
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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.

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Thanks again,
gil

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