# ETag header support

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/etag-header-support/136729>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 20, 2019, 6:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/etag-header-support/136729 "2019-12-20T18:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 7:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/etag-header-support/136729/12 "2019-12-22T19:05:45Z")

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Correct, the answer is a hard, definitive no for both philosophical and technical reasons.

(assets are a different issue, but using unique filenames with a guid is a far superior approach, so etags are kind of obsolete in general.)

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