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26447	Deprecate USE_ETAGS setting in favor of ConditionalGetMiddleware unconditionally setting an ETag	Denis Cornehl	Denis Cornehl	"In my opinion this setting is not needed (any more)

- Conditional-Get handling can happen in the ConditionalGetMiddleware, not in CommonMiddleware any more
- using or not using the middleware is (nearly) the same as setting USE_ETAGS or not
- ETag Calculation can happen also in the middleware 

this also will fix a problem when you use the GZipMiddleware in combination with the Conditional-Get handling in CommonMiddleware. 

Open questions for me: 
- ConditionalGetMiddleware also handles Last-Modified/If-Modified-Since , which CommonMiddleware didn't. I don't see a problem in throwing them together and activating/deactivating them together. You?"	Cleanup/optimization	closed	HTTP handling	1.9	Normal	fixed		k@…	Ready for checkin	1	0	0	0	0	0