On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Noah Slater<nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:12:07AM -0400, Damien Katz wrote: >> Im not sure I understand why we can't just calculate and send the MD5 >> header for the content range. > > We could, but are you not proposing that we use this value for the document > revision?
As I read the original email about Content-MD5 is that they are specifically *not* for document revisions because then we'd have to do canonicalization. But the RFC specifically states that the Content-MD5 is applied to the canonical version. > If that is the case, when you do range requests, the hash sent back > doesn't actually correspond to anything. If I used the hash from the final > range > request of a document to post an update, it would presumably fail. > > Best, > > -- > Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater >
