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Google, GitHub and others leverage conditional HTTP requests to build APIs

28 points| bartdegoede | 3 years ago |quadratic.fm | reply

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[+] aendruk|3 years ago|reply
This article is just bait on a solicitation for your contact information.
[+] chipsa|3 years ago|reply
It's got a standard substack pop over. You don't have to give it your info.
[+] plumeria|3 years ago|reply
The If-Modified-Since and If-Unmodified-Since precondition headers seem useful not only for APIs but also for web crawlers. Assuming bots follow some protocol that uses these tags, if you have lots of rarely-updated pages, it could save you some bandwidth.