HTTP on Ryan Knopphttps://ryanrk.com/tags/http/Recent content in HTTP on Ryan Knoppen-US2026Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000Skipping unchanged RSS feeds with conditional GET.https://ryanrk.com/articles/conditional-get-rss/https://ryanrk.com/articles/conditional-get-rss/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +00002026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00ryan@theknopps.com (Ryan Knopp)Downloading the whole feed every time you poll is wasteful and a little rude to the server. Conditional GET lets you ask “has anything changed?” and get a tiny 304 back when it hasn’t.