3×× - Redirection
304 Not Modified
A conditional GET or HEAD request has been received and would have resulted in a 200 OK response if it were not for the fact that the condition evaluated to false.
In other words, there is no need for the server to transfer a representation of the target resource because the request indicates that the client, which made the request conditional, already has a valid representation; the server is therefore redirecting the client to make use of that stored representation as if it were the payload of a 200 OK response.
The server generating a 304 response MUST generate any of the following
header fields that would have been sent in a 200 OK response to
the same request: Cache-Control, Content-Location, Date, ETag, Expires,
and Vary.
Since the goal of a 304 response is to minimize information transfer when the recipient already has one or more cached representations, a sender SHOULD NOT generate representation metadata other than the above listed fields unless said metadata exists for the purpose of guiding cache updates (e.g., Last-Modified might be useful if the response does not have an ETag field).
Requirements on a cache that receives a 304 response are defined in Section 4.3.4 of RFC7234. If the conditional request originated with an outbound client, such as a user agent with its own cache sending a conditional GET to a shared proxy, then the proxy SHOULD forward the 304 response to that client.
A 304 response cannot contain a message-body; it is always terminated by the first empty line after the header fields.
- Source: RFC7232 Section 4.1
304 Code References
- Rails HTTP Status Symbol:
:not_modified - Go HTTP Status Constant:
http.StatusNotModified - Symfony HTTP Status Constant:
Response::HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED - Python2 HTTP Status Constant:
httplib.NOT_MODIFIED - Python3+ HTTP Status Constant:
http.client.NOT_MODIFIED - Python3.5+ HTTP Status Constant:
http.HTTPStatus.NOT_MODIFIED