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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag should help with that.

• hk__2 11y ago
  It can help to avoid re-downloading a timeline that didn’t change but you’ll still have to re-download the whole file for each new status.
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  • detaro 11y ago
    Make the ETAG the size, send a range request for only the bytes you haven't seen already?
    • buckket 11y ago
      This is nice as long as nobody changes old status updates. Thought about using If-Modified-Since to at least reduce the load when nothing has changed at all. But still: It will definitely take some time till a "twtxt timeline" causes more traffic than browsing the current Twitter homepage. :3