[Httplib2-discuss] Options for dealing with broken web sites?

[Robert L. <ro...@le...>]

I'm attempting to use httplib2 on a site served by IIS, owned by a government 
department. An issue I'm seeing is that the etag is changing reasonably often, 
even though the documents I want are unchanged and this triggers off a time 
consuming process that I'd rather not do if nothing has changed (hence the use 
of httplib2). A quick google tuns up the fact that on IIS, by default etags will 
change when a configuration change is made or the server is rebooted. There are 
fixes available for this but getting the department to apply them would be 
difficult, if not impossible. It would be handy if I could tell httplib2 *not* 
to use the etag, even if it were available and instead rely on the last-modified 
header.

Is this something that is likely to be allowed into httplib2?

Robert