Problem with the ETag code in my book

by community-syndication | Mar 18, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

I just discovered that in Chapter 11 – my code for generating ETags has a bug.
The code needs to wrap the ETag in a set of quotes:

string GenerateETag(User
u) { byte[] bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(u.UserId
+ u.LastModified.ToString()); byte[] hash = MD5.Create().ComputeHash(bytes); string etag
= Convert.ToBase64String(hash); return string.Format("\"{0}\"",
etag); }

Sorry – as I always say “Hi – I’m Jon, I’m a developer, and I write code with
bugs” 😉

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