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RESTalk Patterns - A Pattern Collection for RESTful Conversations
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Polling > Mention conditional GETs as means to save bandwidth during polling #2

Open odrotbohm opened 8 years ago

odrotbohm commented 8 years ago

While the overhead of polling can be mitigated significantly by the use of caches on the server side, it is often criticized as wasteful to clients as they they need to reestablish connections and transfer payloads repeatedly.

This can be optimized by using conditional GET requests, so that a client only receives a 304 Not Modified.

saivlis commented 8 years ago

That is a good idea we will work on incorporating that.