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

[Joe G. <jo...@bi...>]

On 10/27/06, Robert Leftwich <ro...@le...> wrote:
> 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?

Yeah, I certainly wouldn't want it to be the default
behaviour, but a switch should be easy to add.

   -joe

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