If you have ever used the YSlow (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/) to analyze the web page to improve the performance, you may have experienced with “Configure ETags” alert.
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What is Entity Tags (ETags)
Entity tags (ETags) are a mechanism web servers and the browser use to determine whether a component in the browser’s cache matches one on the origin server. Since ETags are typically constructed using attributes that make them unique to a specific server hosting a site, the tags will not match when a browser gets the original component from one server and later tries to validate that component on a different server. (http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#etags)
“Configure ETags” is a recommended best practices for speeding up the website. If you are an ASP.NET developer, you can configure this by adding following code to the web.config file.
<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<clear/>
<add name="ETag" value=" "/>
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>
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