Send an ETag header, and honour the If-None-Match request header diff -ru -x '*~' Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.30-orig/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.30/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm --- Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.30-orig/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm 2012-05-04 18:49:30.000000000 +0200 +++ Catalyst-Plugin-Static-Simple-0.30/lib/Catalyst/Plugin/Static/Simple.pm 2013-02-25 22:57:18.667150181 +0100 @@ -187,16 +187,27 @@ my $type = $c->_ext_to_type( $full_path ); my $stat = stat $full_path; - $c->res->headers->content_type( $type ); - $c->res->headers->content_length( $stat->size ); - $c->res->headers->last_modified( $stat->mtime ); # Tell Firefox & friends its OK to cache, even over SSL: - $c->res->headers->header('Cache-control' => 'public'); + #$c->res->headers->header('Cache-control' => 'public'); + + $c->res->headers->last_modified( $stat->mtime ); # Optionally, set a fixed expiry time: if ($config->{expires}) { $c->res->headers->expires(time() + $config->{expires}); } + if ($config->{send_etag}) { + my $etag = '"' . $stat->mtime . '-' . $stat->ino . '-'. $stat->size . '"'; + $c->res->headers->header('ETag' => $etag); + if (($c->req->header('If-None-Match') // "") eq $etag) { + $c->res->status(304); + return 1; + } + } + + $c->res->headers->content_type( $type ); + $c->res->headers->content_length( $stat->size ); + my $fh = IO::File->new( $full_path, 'r' ); if ( defined $fh ) { binmode $fh;