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cure on Feb 24, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heroku was Down

.... no way.

Cache freshness checks involve a lot of headers, which take up way more bandwidth than one unicode character.

jermaustin1 on Feb 24, 2022 [–]

if you care about cache freshness - you could set the cache header to 10 years and it never be an issue again.

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