eksopl/fuuka — Issue #15: Support If-Modified-Since headers in dumper
Author: eksopl
Created: 2012-02-21 15:46:27+00:00
State: open
Labels: Dumper, Feature

Implementing this seems a bit pointless, since it requires storing even more state (the dumpers already consume enough RAM as-is) and it doesn't strike me as something that brings any kind of bandwidth saving in normal usage.

The behavior of fuuka's dumper is to hit on index pages, which, on 4chan, are almost always likely to have changed. It only refreshes specific threads that it's tracking with a very long delay, usually something like 15 minutes. But while there's no bandwidth saving to be had in the former case, I suppose there might be some savings in the latter.

Nevertheless, this might be something worth looking into after the actually serious issues with the dumper are fixed (I am looking at you, issue #2), even if just for the sake of completion.