[Feature] - ETag if-modified cache invalidation #4

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1. StalkR commented on Nov 19, 2015

   

   StalkR

   on Nov 19, 2015

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   Hi Brendan, not really: the goal for this library is to cache everything, even requests that the server do not intend to be cached (cf. https://github.com/StalkR/httpcache/blob/master/cache.go#L59 that caches all 200 and 301). It's not meant as a caching mechanism like in browsers.
   I created it primarily to test libraries fetching pages and parsing them so that tests would only fetch it once, then re-use the same page in following runs of the tests, this way testing only just the parsing code (e.g. https://github.com/StalkR/imdb/blob/master/init_test.go).
   So I'd recommend creating another library for this, but feel free to fork and evolve this one if you think it's a good basis!
   Cheers