No cache-control on Atom feed

Question

I made my own Atom parser on my server to parse some Atom feed from stackoverflow. But this ressource don't have cache-control. For instance if you fetch headers of https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag/ruby-on-rails you can see this header

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:40:09 GMT
Content-Length: 849

So I can't know if this atom change or not. Therefor I need fetch the entire response of this request. If there were a simple HTTP cache with 304 or etag or last-modified, I could avoid fetching this request each time.

Answer 1

This could be a solution.

date last question asked link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=ruby-on-rails&sort=newest&pagesize=1

date last question modified link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged?tagnames=ruby-on-rails&sort=active&pagesize=1

This response will be much shorter and you can isolate the date in "title" property of the first span tag inside the div class="user-action-time" tag.

I hope this helps.

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