Re: Weak validators in conditional requests

[Eduard Bagdasaryan <[e-mail]>]

Note that the phrase "Weak entity-tags are now allowed..."
is taken from RFC7232 Appendix A, describing differences
with RFC2616. It would be pointless to change it
into "weak *validators* are now allowed..." without fixing the
corresponding RFC7232 sections (3.3, 3.4 and 3.5). In other
words, your suggestion would require adding
"A recipient MUST use the weak comparison function..." into
3.3, 3.4 and 3.5 sections.

Also, my second question about 206 responses remains unanswered:

 >    2. RFC 7233 Appendix B states:
 >
 > > A weak validator cannot be used in a 206 response. (Section 4.1)

 > However, I do not see any explicit 'weak validator' restrictions in
 > 4.1 Section.


On 07.09.2018 13:18, Julian Reschke wrote:
> On 9/7/2018 1:41 AM, Eduard Bagdasaryan wrote:
>> Thanks, but 2616 changes mention only entity tags:
>> "Weak entity-tags are now allowed in all requests except range
>> requests.",
>> not considering If-Modified-Since, If-Unmodified-Since and
>> If-Range, I am concerned in.
>> ...
>
> Hm.
>
> May the change should have been described as "weak *validators* are 
> now allowed..."?
>
> Best regards, Julian