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Re:Roadmap – nginx by zaph0d on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @08:50AM (#3976287)
I am more excited about ETags support than SPDY & Websockets. Etags (when used correctly) are extremely handy.
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Re:Roadmap – nginx by newman314 on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:15AM (#3976380)
Please elaborate...
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Re:Roadmap – nginx by untog on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:37AM (#3976467)
There's a great example/explanation on the Facebook Developer blog:

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/627/

Basically, it's Last-Modified on steroids.

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Re:Roadmap – nginx by Vidart on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @10:30AM (#3976717)
In the link that you mentioned, ETags are produced and handled by application. There are no special needs in web-server support.
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Re:Roadmap – nginx by untog on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @10:34AM (#3976731)
Right... I was assuming that the OP wanted to know what ETags are, rather than their specific implementation in nginx.
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Re:Roadmap – nginx by zaph0d on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @10:49AM (#3976809)
Etags are useful for static assets as well.
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