Werk #15886: etag: allow star tag on endpoints that enforce etag policy

Component REST API
Title etag: allow star tag on endpoints that enforce etag policy
Date Jun 5, 2023
Checkmk Edition Checkmk Raw (CRE)
Checkmk Version 2.2.0p3 2.3.0b1
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed

If-Match is most often used with state-changing methods (e.g., POST, PUT, DELETE) to prevent accidental overwrites when multiple user agents might be acting in parallel on the same resource.

This werk introduces a mechanism to ignore or bypass this protection mechanism by passing the special * character to the If-Match header.

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