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GETTING CONDITIONALLY

blog.julik.nl16 min read

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Devs often don't understand the cache control mechanisms that CDNs rely on, which can lead to unnecessary costs from CDN providers who offer tools to compensate for improper caching. CDNs are sophisticated caching proxies that use conditional GET requests and Cache-Control headers. Properly implementing Cache-Control headers is more important than relying on complex CDN features.