On Mon, 11 May 2026 10:52:05 +0200,
Job Snijders <job@bsd.nl> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 01:39:20PM +0200, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 05 May 2026 21:58:01 +0200,
> > Kirill A. Korinsky <kirill@korins.ky> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'd like to teach httpd to advertise static file revalidation by default
> > > with Cache-Control: no-cache, preserving the existing Last-Modified and
> > > If-Modified-Since flow; add a [no] cache directive for opting out, and
> > > advertise Vary: Accept-Encoding whenever gzip-static is enabled.
> > > 
> > 
> > This is new version which is rebased upon inherit gzip-static in locations
> > fix. It widen server flags to 64-bit integers because the 32-bit flag space
> > has no room for the cache/no-cache pair.
> > 
> > Ok?
> 
> I'd like to use the functionality, but I found this somewhat counter-intuitive:
> 
>    "cache" config directive results in sending "Cache-Control: no-cache" header
> "no cache" config directive results in sending "" header
> 
> Can we come up with something better on the httpd.conf side?
> 

What do you think about [no] revalidate or [no] validation?

Frankly, [no] cache was simplest way, and I have no better namig.

-- 
wbr, Kirill