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ETag et al

TorgoX on 2004-04-10T00:55:19

Dear All,

I'm thinking about adding ETag support to XML::RSS::TimingBot, but I wonder if it's worth the bother. Are there actually HTTP servers that support ETag/If-None-Match that don't also support Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since?

(I already have XML::RSS::TimingBot doing Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since)

ETag Support

kasei on 2004-04-11T20:27:44

I'm not sure how widespread it is, but I can tell you that the in-house code at my former employer used ETags without Last-Modified support, so it does exist.

Re:ETag Support

pudge on 2004-04-13T23:06:02

For Slash, we do some dynamic RSS now (and plan to roll out even more), and use ETag for it.

Why dynamic? So http://use.perl.org/index.pl?content_type=rss&logtoken=... will give you RSS matching your own prefs. So you can include the daily module listings, or exclude user group meetings, etc.

Re:ETag Support

TorgoX on 2004-04-14T23:52:11

Excellent excellent!