Open da2x opened 7 years ago
I’d prefer keeping the term “conditional GET” because it seems to be more widespread and easier to understand.
@da2x Your linked RFC even calls them “conditional requests”:
Each client in the request chain may have its own cache, so it is common for a cache at an intermediary to receive conditional requests from other (outbound) caches.
Furthermore, MDN also uses the term “conditional request” in its wiki.
Conditional GET is not a thing. The method is called HTTP cache revalidation. Changes links to relevant RFC sections for clients and publishers.