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Kevin Fox
TIL about ETags. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Now if only servers and browsers would use them to avoid duplicate downloads. (@meangrape @samuelclay)
July 13
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That bit about tracking seems nefarious.
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
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It's not that clearcut: it's currently functionally impossible to use ETags effectively for most non-trivial web server configurations due to how they're constructed by Apache and IIS (possibly other servers too, but I don't have experience with them). Yahoo! has a brief overview of the problems: http://developer.yahoo.com/perform... but the current best practice is when in doubt, disable them because improperly configured ETags are worse for web performance than avoiding their use.
- Mark Trapp