Document ETag conditional requests in repository specification - #4906
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Document the use of ETag and If-None-Match HTTP headers and 304 Not Modified responses for package version listing requests in doc/repository-spec-v2.md.
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Co-authored-by: Jonas Finnemann Jensen <jopsen@gmail.com>
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Summary
Documents support for HTTP conditional requests (
If-None-MatchwithETag) and304 Not Modifiedresponses for the package versions listing endpoint (GET <hosted-url>/api/packages/<package>) indoc/repository-spec-v2.md.This reflects the client functionality implemented in #4890.
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If-None-Matchrequest header andETagresponse header for<hosted-url>/api/packages/<package>.If-None-Match/304 Not Modified) to validate cached version listings.