#19705: CommonMiddleware handles If-None-Match incorrectly
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Reporter: Aymeric Augustin | Owner: Denis
| Cornehl
Type: Bug | Status: closed
Component: HTTP handling | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Kevin Christopher Henry):
[https://github.com/django/django/pull/7378 PR] for having GZipMiddleware
set gzip modification times to 0.
I'm not aware of any downside, and the advantage is that
`ConditionalGetMiddleware` will work (that is, produce 304 Not Modified
responses) on gzipped content (e.g. if the order of the middlewares is
reversed, or if the `gzip_page()` view decorator is used).
This usage is allowed by the specification ("MTIME = 0 means no time stamp
is available", Section 2.3.1 of [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952 RFC
1952]) and is in common use (for example, Java's `GZipOutputStream` sets
the MTIME to 0).
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