Re: thoughts on ETags and mod_dav

2007-12-30 Thread Werner Baumann
efficient and less confusing choice of weak validator? Henrik Nordström wrote: lör 2007-12-29 klockan 20:56 +0100 skrev Werner Baumann: Objections: - Squid seems not to take any information from the Etag. Yes it does. It uses the ETag as an resource variant identifier. Is this true

Re: segfault in dav_validate_request

2007-12-30 Thread Werner Baumann
Michael Clark wrote: I'm getting a segfault here in mod_dav from trunk (after a make clean) running litmus using extras/httpd-dav.conf whereas it was working for me last night. Not sure if this a work-in-progress. No time to file a bug right now as i'm off for the weekend. - running `locks':

Re: thoughts on ETags and mod_dav

2007-12-29 Thread Werner Baumann
Creating strong Etags would be not to difficult, if the WebDAV repository is only changed by mod_dav. To me it seems not very important, how exactly the strong Etag is created: (filesize+inode+counter, counter only, locking the file for one second, enforcing an inode-change. All this can work.

Re: thoughts on ETags and mod_dav

2007-12-29 Thread Werner Baumann
First: I proposed to not only drop that *none*-Etag, but also to send no-cache. The second is an error. The server should not send no-cache, but let it to the client and the intermediate caches to decide about caching on the base of the spec and their configured policy. But I still believe

Re: time for 1.3.40 and 2.2.7 ?

2007-12-28 Thread Werner Baumann
Jim Jagielski wrote: Here's what I'd like to propose: o) We do another triple release: 1.3.40, 2.0.62 and 2.2.7 o) I tag and roll all 3 this Saturday (Dec 29th) o) We anticipate releasing/announcing all on Jan 2, 2008 It would be a great New Year's gift to the community :) Great

Re: thoughts on ETags and mod_dav

2007-12-28 Thread Werner Baumann
Paritosh Shah wrote: Another possible approach would be to create a new ap_meets_conditions_2() with resource_exists as an explicit argument ( instead of implicitly using r-notes ). Till the next major release we could just make the current ap_meets_conditions() call ap_meets_conditions_2()

Re: time for 1.3.40 and 2.2.7 ?

2007-12-28 Thread Werner Baumann
Nick Kew wrote (concerning bug 38034): A quick look at the reports shows a lot of competing patches, and a lot of inconclusive discussion. So it doesn't look like a simple matter just to apply patches and close bug. If you're telling us it is a simple matter, perhaps you could post a summary