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zer00eyz on May 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cache-Control: immutable

If you go back and read the RFC for http, don't we have the headers to do this already, and the browsers just don't behave that way? http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...

If that is true wouldn't a "strict" cache control make a whole lot more sense?

manigandham on May 11, 2016 [–]

Yes, technically browsers should just skip the revalidation if the header already has a max-age, since that's what the caching time is.

And yes, having more uniform and standardized approach to caching would be better.

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