[mdx] Joe on section 2.2

[Rainer Hoerbe]

Am 01.10.2013 um 18:23 schrieb Ian Young <ian at iay.org.uk>:

> 
> On 1 Oct 2013, at 15:53, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> My impression was that Leif was saying exactly that, but I'll let him
>> speak to that.
> 
> What I heard was a claim that there were multiple sophisticated HTTP libraries in Python, which I'm prepared to accept[1]. What I didn't hear, and what I think the important consideration is here, is a claim that some or all of those assume that you do cacheing using HEAD and are unable to perform conditional GET.

IFAIK there is not direct support for conditional requests in python-requests, but adding if-modified-since and etag to requests is possible with custom headers. I do not know about other libraries, but I guess a similar fallback would be possible as well.

- Rainer