FlowDrop Workflow Specification 1.0-draft

A conditional schema request is exact string equality and nothing more

A partial wildcard implementation would report "unchanged" to a client that holds no copy at all, which is worse than answering unconditionally.

The rule

Normative: this is the rule
  1. If-None-Match on a workflow schema read is compared for exact string equality against the tag of the variant being requested.
  2. A match answers 304 carrying the entity tag and the body {}, and does so before the schema itself is assembled.
  3. A mismatch answers the full 200.
  4. The wildcard *, a comma-separated list of tags and weak comparison are not implemented: a caller sending any of them receives a correct but unconditional 200.
  5. Each variant answers its own conditional request, so carrying the variant in the tag costs no variant a 304.
Rule identifiers are permanent and are never renumbered. Each implementation publishes its own standing against these rules; this specification does not.spec 1.0-draft · META-7 · changed in spec 1.0