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

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

Joe Gregorio wrote:
> Actually I would prefer to see somthing like the
> Http.follow_all_redirects attribute:
> 
>  http://bitworking.org/projects/httplib2/ref/http-objects.html
> 
> I worry about cluttering up request() with even more
> parameters than it already has.
> 

Yep, good point.

How's this look:

$ diff -n __init__orig.py __init__.py
a549 1
         self.ignore_etag = False
d698 1
a698 1
         if method in ["PUT"] and self.cache and info.has_key('etag') and not 
self.ignore_etag:
d733 1
a733 1
                     if info.has_key('etag') and not self.ignore_etag:


with the documentation along the lines of:

ignore_etag
     Defaults to false. If true, then any etags present in the cached response 
are ignored when processing the current request, i.e. httplib2 does *not* use 
'if-match' for PUT or 'if-none-match' when GET or HEAD requests are made. This 
is mainly to deal with broken servers, such as IIS, which change the etag after 
a server configuration change or reboot, even if the content is unchanged.

Robert