Re: Patch - For caching with 304 Not Modified

[Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>]

Simon Smith <amazingdancingbear@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch seems to work but it seems strange that it is missing in
> the first place as there are so many users of Rack and Rails and I
> cannot find any information pertaining to other users with this
> problem. I am wondering if there is an alternate way to handle this
> caching without modifying the rack code itself and I am just missing a
> configuration option in Rails, do you know of one?

Rack already includes a Rack::ConditionalGet middleware which users can
load if needed.

However, I suspect most Rails users use a non-Rack server such as nginx
or Apache to serve static files, so having such middleware (or even
Rack::File) would be redundant.

-- 
Eric Wong