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author | Rafael França <rafaelmfranca@gmail.com> | 2016-02-01 17:03:17 -0200 |
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committer | Rafael França <rafaelmfranca@gmail.com> | 2016-02-01 17:03:17 -0200 |
commit | 04dea729e3151b57ee15d88a38100b2951b84335 (patch) | |
tree | b92c42f29b66baeefec5d6a3605ad89265796f47 | |
parent | 2341a8e2401f782db5f133c3a34bc487d299ebdc (diff) | |
parent | b3427c662e337c2a3aa8d944b0f012641e67a4bd (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #23151 from maclover7/fix-23148
Add documentation for #17573
-rw-r--r-- | actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/cache.rb | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md | 3 |
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diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/cache.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/cache.rb index 0f7898a3f8..4bd727c14e 100644 --- a/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/cache.rb +++ b/actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/cache.rb @@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ module ActionDispatch set_header DATE, utc_time.httpdate end + # This method allows you to set the ETag for cached content, which + # will be returned to the end user. + # + # By default, Action Dispatch sets all ETags to be weak. + # This ensures that if the content changes only semantically, + # the whole page doesn't have to be regenerated from scratch + # by the web server. With strong ETags, pages are compared + # byte by byte, and are regenerated only if they are not exactly equal. def etag=(etag) key = ActiveSupport::Cache.expand_cache_key(etag) super %(W/"#{Digest::MD5.hexdigest(key)}") diff --git a/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md b/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md index 2650384df3..f45c8005da 100644 --- a/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md +++ b/guides/source/5_0_release_notes.md @@ -253,6 +253,9 @@ Please refer to the [Changelog][action-pack] for detailed changes. `ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest` instead. ([commit](https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/4414c5d1795e815b102571425974a8b1d46d932d)) +* Rails will only generate "weak", instead of strong ETags. + ([Pull Request](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/17573)) + Action View ------------- |