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Implement conditional requests: If-Match, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match, If-Range, If-Unmodified-Since and Last-Modified

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by reviewing the dependent ETag implementation in issue #40 and the server-side cache proposal in issue #60, then consult the linked RFC sections for each conditional-request header. Done means the REST implementation supports If-Match, If-Modified-Since, If-None-Match, If-Range, If-Unmodified-Since, and Last-Modified using the relevant response information.

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Description

feature

This feature is dependent on the implementation of the ETag see #40

Implement capabilities required for conditional requests:

Because these requests require knowledge of the actual response and to prevent us having to re-compose the response for every question this will benefit considerably from a server side cache solution as suggested in #60

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