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What happens when wrongly configured servers or frameworks with default settings implement this too aggressively? Browser vendors want their product to work as
by Lxr 9y ago
What happens when wrongly configured servers or frameworks with default settings implement this too aggressively? Browser vendors want their product to work as expected when the user hits refresh, so will be forced to either voliolate the standard or show stale content.
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- jlgaddis 9y agoPer foota [0]: Clients SHOULD NOT issue a conditional request during the response's freshness lifetime (e.g., upon a reload) unless explicitly overridden by the user (e.g., a force reload). The server is still going to serve up the resource when requested. This behavior is for the client-side of things (browser). [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15262108 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15262108