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Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications
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Spring MVC: Designing Real-World Web Applications

by Shameer Kunjumohamed, Hamidreza Sattari, Alex Bretet, Geoffroy Warin
November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
944 pages
21h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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ETags

Our Twitter results are neatly cached, so a user refreshing the result page will not trigger an additional search on the Twitter API. However, the response will be sent to this user multiple times even if the results do not change, which will waste bandwidth.

An ETag is a hash of the data of a web response and is sent as a header. The client can memorize the ETag of a resource and send the last known version to the server with the If-None-Match header. This allows the server to answer 304 Not Modified if the request does not change in the meantime.

Spring has a special Servlet filter, called ShallowEtagHeaderFilter, to handle ETags. Simply add it as a bean in the MasterSpringMvc4Application configuration class:

@Bean public Filter etagFilter() ...
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