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

Posted by bartdegoede on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:04PM
from the quadratic.fm dept.

https://quadratic.fm/p/how-meta-microsoft-google-github

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Re:Google, GitHub and others leverage conditional HTTP reque... by aendruk on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @05:47PM (#33349994)

This article is just bait on a solicitation for your contact information.

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Re:Google, GitHub and others leverage conditional HTTP reque... by chipsa on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @07:59PM (#33351288)

It's got a standard substack pop over. You don't have to give it your info.

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Re:Google, GitHub and others leverage conditional HTTP reque... by plumeria on Thursday October 27, 2022 @12:02AM (#33352926)

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.

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