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Mar 29

Refresh static page if updated

Daniel Perelman

The problem# I wanted a web page to always show the latest version, but the page is a static page that is auto-regenerated when new data is available, and I did not want to complicate my setup by involving server-side logic in accomplishing that. This can be done manually by clicking the refresh...

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Mar 15

Get current document's ETag

Daniel Perelman

The problem# JavaScript can access the last modified timestamp of the current page using document.lastModified, but the more precise identifier of a document version, the ETag, does not have a corresponding straightforward property on document. Furthermore, it's not sufficient to simply query the...

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