Changeset 879 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.xml
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- 23/07/10 09:19:25 (12 years ago)
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draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.xml
r874 r879 330 330 </t> 331 331 <t> 332 A "weak entity-tag ,"indicated by the "W/" prefix, &MAY; be shared by332 A "weak entity-tag", indicated by the "W/" prefix, &MAY; be shared by 333 333 two representations of a resource only if the representations are equivalent and 334 334 could be substituted for each other with no significant change in … … 460 460 header fields and representation body) changes in any way, then the 461 461 associated validator would change as well. If this is true, then we 462 call this validator a "strong validator ."462 call this validator a "strong validator". 463 463 </t> 464 464 <t> … … 466 466 validator only on semantically significant changes, and not when 467 467 insignificant aspects of the representation change. A validator that does not 468 always change when the representation changes is a "weak validator ."468 always change when the representation changes is a "weak validator". 469 469 </t> 470 470 <t> 471 471 An entity-tag is normally a strong validator, but the protocol 472 provides a mechanism to tag an entity-tag as "weak ."One can think of472 provides a mechanism to tag an entity-tag as "weak". One can think of 473 473 a strong validator as one that changes whenever the sequence of bits 474 474 in a representation changes, while a weak value changes whenever the
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