Thomas Broyer wrote:
>
> 2006/5/17, Sylvain Hellegouarch:
>> Besides, say a comment is added to the comments feed. I, as an
>> application
>> developer, will want to update thr:count and thr:when of the entry
>> itself.
>> Meaning that I will have to disregard any If-Modified-Since header
>> sent by
>> an aggregator to check out if my entry has changed when it has actually
>> not changed per se.
>
> You Atom Entry Document (representation) has changed, so Last-Modified
> and ETag should have changed and you have to eval
> If-(Not-)Modified-Since and If-(None-)Match wrt these new values.
>
The effect would be no different than if the length attribute on an
enclosure link element changed. FTE does not and will not ever seek to
fix problems inherent in the syndication model. One possible solution
to this would be to use weak entity tag's rather than strong tags or
if-modified-since.
- James
