class Rack::ConditionalGet

Middleware that enables conditional GET using If-None-Match and If-Modified-Since. The application should set either or both of the Last-Modified or Etag response headers according to RFC 2616. When either of the conditions is met, the response body is set to be zero length and the response status is set to 304 Not Modified.

Applications that defer response body generation until the body’s each message is received will avoid response body generation completely when a conditional GET matches.

Adapted from Michael Klishin’s Merb implementation: github.com/wycats/merb/blob/master/merb-core/lib/merb-core/rack/middleware/conditional_get.rb

Public Class Methods

new (app)

# File lib/rack/conditional_get.rb, line 18
def initialize(app)
  @app = app
end

Public Instance Methods

call (env)

Return empty 304 response if the response has not been modified since the last request.

# File lib/rack/conditional_get.rb, line 24
def call(env)
  case env[REQUEST_METHOD]
  when "GET", "HEAD"
    status, headers, body = @app.call(env)
    headers = Utils::HeaderHash[headers]
    if status == 200 && fresh?(env, headers)
      status = 304
      headers.delete(CONTENT_TYPE)
      headers.delete(CONTENT_LENGTH)
      original_body = body
      body = Rack::BodyProxy.new([]) do
        original_body.close if original_body.respond_to?(:close)
      end
    end
    [status, headers, body]
  else
    @app.call(env)
  end
end