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issue 289 - place normative requirement on client side
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mcmanus committed Mar 13, 2017
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# The immutable Cache-Control extension

When present in an HTTP response, the immutable Cache-Control
extension indicates that the origin server MUST NOT update the representation
of that resource during the freshness lifetime of the response.
extension indicates that the origin server will not update the representation
of that resource during the freshness lifetime of the
response.

Clients SHOULD NOT issue a conditional request during the
response's freshness lifetime (e.g. upon a reload) unless explicitly
overridden by the user (e.g. a force reload).

The immutable extension only applies during the freshness lifetime of
the response. Stale responses SHOULD be revalidated as they normally
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