Major Description
In order to be able to more easily maintain last modified response header and ETag, should expose:
ap_set_etag()
ap_update_mtime()
ap_set_last_modified()
through the request object. Ie.,
req.set_etag()
req.update_mtime()
req.set_last_modified()
Direct assignment to mtime wouldn't be allowed and req.update_mtime() perfered as it will only update mtime if replacement value is newer. See mailing list for brief discussion on this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/python-dev@httpd.apache.org/msg01212.html