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Use HTTP terminology for cache validation #83

Open da2x opened 7 years ago

da2x commented 7 years ago

Conditional GET is not a thing. The method is called HTTP cache revalidation. Changes links to relevant RFC sections for clients and publishers.

sonicdoe commented 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.