HTTP Caching
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Resource that does not want to be cached
GET /about HTTP/1.1
HOST: example.orgHTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:28:50 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 4321Resource that wants to be cached
GET /assets/logo.png HTTP/1.1
Host: example.orgHTTP/1.1 200 OK
ETag: "ABC"
Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:28:50 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: 2348
Vary: Accept-Encoding
… data …When server has same etag
GET /assets/logo.png HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
If-None-Match: "ABC"HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
ETag: "ABC"
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:28:50 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: 2348
Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
When server has not been modified since
GET /assets/logo.png HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMTHTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:28:50 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: 2348
Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
ETag: "ABC"
Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
When server does not have that etag
GET /assets/logo.png HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
If-None-Match: "ABC"HTTP/1.1 200 OK
ETag: "XYZ"
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:28:50 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: 2348
Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
Last-Modified: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
When server has been modified since
GET /assets/logo.png HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMTHTTP/1.1 200 OK
ETag: "XYZ"
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:28:50 GMT
Content-Type: image/png
Content-Length: 2348
Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
Last-Modified: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:28:00 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding