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Comment by terminalshort

9 days ago

Isn't this just how crawlers work? How do you know if a page has changed if you don't keep visiting it?

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heavyset_go  8 days ago

HEAD requests

  • Findecanor  8 days ago

    Scrapers could also use the "Cache-Control", "Expires" and "If-Modified-Since" headers properly, to reduce their traffic a little, but do they?

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