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> You’ll have to mask GET requests with a HEAD request and appropriately handle HTTP status code 304 for resource not modified.

I'm not sure I understand this. Surely the point of if-modified-since and etag headers is that you can send them in the GET request and get back a 304, there is no need to do a HEAD-then-GET?




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