On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:21 AM, tlhackque <l...@acm.org> wrote:
> With firefox 3.6.6, refreshing a page that uses gears generates a 200 > response for gears_init.js, but a 304 for jquery.min.js. > > This seems inconsistent (though of course this is common with http > cache directives.) Since I'm optimizing web page load times, I'd > prefer the 304. > > Can this be fixed? > > Gears is served locally. A 304 header would not make it any faster. A 304 is sent by servers to reduce bandwidth consumption by telling the client to serve from its local cache.