Opened 15 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#13187 closed (duplicate)

never_cache should NOT calculate an etag header

Reported by: Eloff Owned by: nobody
Component: Core (Cache system) Version: 1.1
Severity: Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Presumably the purpose of never_cache is to prevent browser caching, so why calculate an md5 hash of the response for etag, which might cause browser caching? Probably etag should be omitted, but if there is a purpose to adding it, make a nice big random etag rather. No point burning CPU cycles AND possibly giving bad behavior too!

Note that the current behavior breaks streaming responses, see #12214.

Change History (2)

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 15 years ago

Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

You've already commented on ticket #12214, which specifically mentions never_cach, etags and iterator content; there's no need to open another ticket just to posit another opinion on how the problem should be solved.

comment:2 by Eloff, 15 years ago

Au contraire, if I don't post it as a separate issue people will whine about me posting meta bugs. But as long as someone actually rethinks that crazy code, I promise I won't tell anyone what your meta-bug preferences are.

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