Create ETag filter in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I would like to create an ETag filter in MVC. The problem is that I can\'t control the Response.OutputStream, if I was able to do that I would simply calculate the ETag acco

Answer 1

Thanks a lot it is exactly what I was looking for. Just made a small fix to the ETagFilter that will handle 304 in case that the content wasn't changed

public class ETagAttribute : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Filter = new ETagFilter(filterContext.HttpContext.Response, filterContext.RequestContext.HttpContext.Request);
    }
}

public class ETagFilter : MemoryStream
{
    private HttpResponseBase _response = null;
    private HttpRequestBase _request;
    private Stream _filter = null;

    public ETagFilter(HttpResponseBase response, HttpRequestBase request)
    {
        _response = response;
        _request = request;
        _filter = response.Filter;
    }

    private string GetToken(Stream stream)
    {
        byte[] checksum = new byte[0];
        checksum = MD5.Create().ComputeHash(stream);
        return Convert.ToBase64String(checksum, 0, checksum.Length);
    }

    public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
    {
        byte[] data = new byte[count];
        Buffer.BlockCopy(buffer, offset, data, 0, count);
        var token = GetToken(new MemoryStream(data));

        string clientToken = _request.Headers["If-None-Match"];

        if (token != clientToken)
        {
            _response.Headers["ETag"] = token;
            _filter.Write(data, 0, count);
        }
        else
        {
            _response.SuppressContent = true;
            _response.StatusCode = 304;
            _response.StatusDescription = "Not Modified";
            _response.Headers["Content-Length"] = "0";
        }
    }
}