Re: Atom and prev links

And if I returned a 204?

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Markus Lanthaler
<[email protected]>wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
> @markuslanthaler
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