Chrome browser is not sending if-modified-since header to server

Question

I have these headers being sent to the client by the server:

Cache-Control:private
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Type:text/html
Date:Su         


        

Answer 1

I know this question is old, but still.. I noticed that chrome remembers the last refresh that you made. So if you press ctrl+shift+r (refreshing and deleting cache), and pressing ctrl+r (just refreshing), chrome keeps on deleting cache and does not show the 304 in the received response. There is a workaround for this. Press ctrl+shift+r and then go to the address bar, focus it, and hit enter. If your etags are set correctly, and your server is ready to serve a 304, you'll see a new response code in the debugger - 304. so it works.