Please use HTTP caching for the RSS feed

[Saklad5]

The Factorio blog's RSS feed is not currently set up for HTTP caching of any kind. Not using ETags is bad for anything on the web, but it is unacceptable for something intended to be checked on a regular basis. I have almost a hundred feeds in my newsreader app, and almost all of the traffic it generates by checking them consists of RSS feeds from Factorio and five similarly misconfigured servers I am also complaining to.

Feeds are not meant to be sent from scratch. I understand if you're worried about outdated caches, but using ETags avoids that issue entirely. If you want to know more, here's a guide on the subject.

[vinzenz]

hi there, while I don't appreciate the tone, I just deployed HTTP conditional get support for the /blog/rss endpoint

[Saklad5]

Thank you, and I apologize if I seemed overly hostile.

[hr][/hr]

While I don't think it's going to break anything, I notice that the ETag being sent is basically just the Last-Modified time (which is also being sent) in ISO 8601. If you are in fact setting the ETag to that automatically, you could just drop the ETag entirely: Last-Modified does the same thing (unless you want sub-second precision), and everything that supports an ETag supports that too.

[ptx0]

Thank you, and I apologize if I seemed overly hostile.

[hr][/hr]

While I don't think it's going to break anything, I notice that the ETag being sent is basically just the Last-Modified time (which is also being sent) in ISO 8601. If you are in fact setting the ETag to that automatically, you could just drop the ETag entirely: Last-Modified does the same thing (unless you want sub-second precision), and everything that supports an ETag supports that too.

beggars can't be choosers.

your setup is probably not universal, and browser support is, as we (who actually deal with web dev and not just simply complain to developers) are more familiar with the history of Internet Explorer.. you should relax. isn't it working for you?