In Django 1.10 we just use Last-Modified, which works fine. Now with
Django 1.11 each response gets a ETag generated based on response.content.
In the case of a x-sendfile response, the response.content is an empty
string. So each time the file is accessed, the ETag generated by
ConditionalGetMiddleware is the same. Regardless of the changed
file/changed mtime.
So now the request has our Last-Modified header AND the Middleware
generated ETag.
In get_conditional_response the ETag, which is always the same hash of
empty string, is checked first and returns a 304. BUT the Last-
Modification has changed and is ignored.
This looks like two bugs for me. First the ETag of the empty content
string from x-sendfile respose. Second returning a 304 if ETag is the same
but Last-Mofified has changed.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29241>
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Old description:
> We found a issue with ConditionalGetMiddleware in combination with apache
> x-sendfile (django-sendfile) and Django 1.11
>
> In Django 1.10 we just use Last-Modified, which works fine. Now with
> Django 1.11 each response gets a ETag generated based on
> response.content. In the case of a x-sendfile response, the
> response.content is an empty string. So each time the file is accessed,
> the ETag generated by ConditionalGetMiddleware is the same. Regardless of
> the changed file/changed mtime.
>
> So now the request has our Last-Modified header AND the Middleware
> generated ETag.
> In get_conditional_response the ETag, which is always the same hash of
> empty string, is checked first and returns a 304. BUT the Last-
> Modification has changed and is ignored.
>
> This looks like two bugs for me. First the ETag of the empty content
> string from x-sendfile respose. Second returning a 304 if ETag is the
> same but Last-Mofified has changed.
New description:
We found a issue with ConditionalGetMiddleware in combination with apache
x-sendfile (django-sendfile) and Django 1.11
In Django 1.10 we just use Last-Modified, which works fine. Now with
Django 1.11 each response gets a ETag generated based on response.content.
In the case of a x-sendfile response, the response.content is an empty
string. So each time the file is accessed, the ETag generated by
ConditionalGetMiddleware is the same. Regardless of the changed
file/changed mtime.
So now the request has our Last-Modified header AND the Middleware
generated ETag.
In get_conditional_response the ETag, which is always the same hash of
empty string, is checked first and returns a 304. BUT the Last-
Modification has changed and is ignored.
This looks like two bugs for me. First the ETag of the empty content
string from x-sendfile respose. Second returning a 304 if ETag is the same
but Last-Modified has changed.
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Comment (by Tim Graham):
If there are two bugs, there should be two tickets. Will you offer some
fixes?
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29241#comment:1>
* stage: Unreviewed => Accepted
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29241#comment:2>
Comment (by Windson yang):
I can try to fix it. But it may take one week for me.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29241#comment:3>
Comment (by Flavio Curella):
I've created a ticket for the 304 issue:
https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/30812#ticket
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29241#comment:4>
Comment (by Claude Paroz):
Now that #30812 is fixed, I think this should be closed, as the behavior
of returning a 304 if ETag is the same but Last-Modified has changed is
conforming to the specs.
See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232#section-6, `entity tags are
presumed to be more accurate than date validators.`
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29241#comment:5>
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
Agreed, current behavior is RFC7232 compliant.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29241#comment:6>