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How Do I Configure eTags?

Using ySlow, it recommends that I use eTags. I never heard of them before today. The question is now, how do I configure eTags?

I just spent the last 2 hours trying to figure this out. I tried adding various recommended scripts to my .htaccess file, but with no luck. ySlow keeps complaining...

My site is a secure site(https) on a litespeed web server. I seen some say you can't configure eTags on a litespeed web server. Is this true?

Thanks.

Solution

  • Note (2021-05-14) :

    While historically there has been somewhat valid reasons to disable ETags - mainly pushed by Yahoo serving things from server farms and unable to implement ETags properly across all servers - ETags should not be disabled by default and chances are Yahoo's problems do not apply to you.

    I think you're supposed to disable ETags, not turn them on.

    Try this:

    Header unset Pragma
Header unset ETag
FileETag None

    References:

    How to turn off Etag with htaccess?

    http://davidwalsh.name/yslow-htaccess