[#SES-283] Support HEAD requests and If-Modified-Since where possible in REST API

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Key:	SES-283
Type:	Improvement
Status:	Resolved
Resolution:	Fixed
Priority:	Major
Assignee:	James Leigh
Reporter:	Herko ter Horst
Votes:	0
Watchers:	0

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Support HEAD requests and If-Modified-Since where possible in REST API

Created: 28/Jun/06 12:54 PM Updated: 02/Dec/08 06:54 PM

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HTTP Server

Affects Version/s:

2.0

Fix Version/s:

3.0

Description

To make it possible for clients to determine if something has changed, the REST API should be extended to support HEAD requests and the If-Modified-Since header where possible, for example on the repository list (/repositories) and each individual repository (/repositories/<repos>).

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Comment by James Leigh [02/Dec/08 06:54 PM]

Requests that do not modify the manager or a repository will return last-modified and etag for cache validation and requests with if-modified-since and/or if-none-match will result in a not-modified response in revision 8165.