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2024-01-13nginx: change etags for statically compressed files served from storeDee Anzorge1-0/+45
Per RFC 9110, [section 8.8.1][1], different representations of the same resource should have different Etags: > A strong validator is unique across all versions of all > representations associated with a particular resource over time. > However, there is no implication of uniqueness across representations > of different resources (i.e., the same strong validator might be in > use for representations of multiple resources at the same time and > does not imply that those representations are equivalent) When serving statically compressed files (ie, when there is an existing corresponding .gz/.br/etc. file on disk), Nginx sends the Etag marked as strong. These tags should be different for each compressed format (as shown in an explicit example in section [8.8.3.3][2] of the RFC). Upstream Etags are composed of the file modification timestamp and content length, and the latter generally changes between these representations. Previous implementation of Nix-specific Etags for things served from store used the store hash. This is fine to share between different files, but it becomes a problem for statically compressed versions of the same file, as it means Nginx was serving different representations of the same resource with the same Etag, marked as strong. This patch addresses this by imitating the upstream Nginx behavior, and appending the value of content length to the store hash. [1]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#name-validator-fields [2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110.html#name-example-entity-tags-varying