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HTTP response freshness tester for Deno. Code ported from https://github.com/jshttp/fresh.

API

import fresh from "https://deno.land/x/fresh/mod.ts";

fresh( reqHeaders, resHeaders )

Verifies if a browsers cache could be considered fresh.

Returns: A boolean indicating if the request has a fresh cache of the response.

Parameters

  • reqHeaders {Headers} - Headers from the server request.
  • resHeaders {Headers} - Headers from the server response.

Examples

import { serve } from "https://deno.land/std/http/server.ts";
import fresh from "https://deno.land/x/fresh/mod.ts";

const server = serve({ port: 3000 });
console.log("Server listening on port 3000");

for await (const req of server) {
  const res = {
    status: 404,
    headers: new Headers({
      "ETag": '"ABC"',
      "Content-Type": "text/plain",
    }),
    body: '',
  };

  // If browser already has a matching etag it should render from client cache
  if (fresh(req.headers, res.headers)) {
    res.status = 304;
    console.log('fresh request');
  } else {
    res.status = 200;
    res.body = "Hello world, this should be cached";
    console.log('stale request');
  }

  req.respond(res);
}

Testing

$ deno test

License

MIT