RE: Atom and prev links

On Friday, June 28, 2013 12:58 PM, Greg Young wrote:
> Actually we have a pretty simple reason for this caching.
>
> If we were to hide the prev that uri would have to be non-cachable.
> If we put it there (we are forward only) then every valid uri we
> have is infinitely cachable. By predefining the next only our
> non-existant uri is non-cachable.

Well, a 404 can be cached as well, so it's not that much of a difference.
Just use an Etag or something similar for the last page and drop it as soon
as you put the link in.

If I would implement a client, I wouldn't keep polling the 404. I would just
assume your feed is broken.


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Markus Lanthaler
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