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

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

Ok, I added in the ignore_etag attribute with a unit test
and updated the documentation. Try the latest
version from svn trunk and see if that works for you.

   Thanks,
   -joe

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


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