If-None-Match

If-None-Match

 

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The If-None-Match header, like all the If headers, can be used to make a request conditional. The client supplies the server with a list of entity tags, and the server compares those tags against the entity tags it has for the resource, returning the resource only if none match.

This allows a cache to update resources only if they have changed. Using the If-None-Match header, a cache can use a single request to both invalidate the entities it has and receive the new entity in the response. Chapter 7discusses conditional requests in detail.

Type

Request header

Basic Syntax

If-None-Match: ("*" | 1# entity-tag)

Example

If-None-Match: "11e92a-457b-31345aa"