# Etag Support

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/etag-support/219224>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [April 24, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/etag-support/219224 "2012-04-24T15:36:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b77776/32.png) [@Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gurdipe_D)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/etag-support/219224/1 "2012-04-24T15:36:54Z")

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Hi,

are there any plans to support etags in the future? Internet-Explorer  
depends on etags otherwise it won’t allow its users to pause and  
resume a download.

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**Author:** ![philip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@philip](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/philip)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2012, 8:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/etag-support/219224/2 "2012-04-24T20:45:58Z")

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Hello!

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 04:33:03PM +0200, Philip wrote:

> are there any plans to support etags in the future? Internet-Explorer  
> depends on etags otherwise it won’t allow its users to pause and  
> resume a download.

Yes, though no ETA yet.

And just for the record, here is Microsoft’s info about this:  
[http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/06/03/send-an-etag-to-enable-http-206-file-download-resume-without-restarting.aspx](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/06/03/send-an-etag-to-enable-http-206-file-download-resume-without-restarting.aspx)

Maxim D.