Well I'm thinking that the Last-Modified header might not be so useful,
but the ETag header definately would;
If the results of a query haven't changed, and then the api could check
for a matching If-None-Match request header, thus allowing an interface
lib (or in the case of the javascript api, the browser cache) to be more
responsive when dealing with queries that return large result sets or
otherwise do an extensive number of sub-queries based on the query
result (if the main query results haven't changed, then the sub query
results aren't likely to change either).
~ Marv.
Chris Radcliff wrote:
Hi Marv,
As far as I know, the API doesn't send those out. The responses are
always assumed to have a last-modified date of "now". Given that, is
there a case where having either of them would help?
Cheers,
~chris
On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:02 AM, SignpostMarv Martin wrote:
Is it just me, or does the API not send out Last-Modified or ETag
headers ?
~ Marv.
