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http-caching
- May 26, 2026 Cache API Match Semantics and Opaque Responses How a Cache decides whether a stored entry answers a request, what Vary does to lookup, and why opaque cross-origin responses cost quota without being readable. web platform
- Sep 30, 2025 Conditional GET and the Revalidation Economy How ETag and Last-Modified turn a refetch into a question, what 304 responses actually save, and why strong and weak validators answer different questions. information retrieval
- Jul 11, 2023 Registry Index Metadata and Resolution Without Downloading Artifacts How registries expose version lists, dependency metadata, and hashes as separate resources, and why fetching full archives during resolution is a design error. language runtimes