System.Net.Http.HttpClient caching behavior

Question

I\'m using HttpClient 0.6.0 from NuGet.

I have the following C# code:

var client = new HttpClient(new WebRequestHandler() {
    CachePolicy =
                


        

Answer 1

Answering my own question..

According to http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14.9.4 I would say that a "Cache-Control: must-revalidate" without expiration states that the resource should be validated on every request.

In this case it means a conditional GET should be done every time the resource is made. So in this case System.Net.Http.HttpClient is behaving correctly and the legacy (Http)WebRequest is doing invalid behavior.