If the cURL request completes with anything other than CURLE_OK, we must
not keep the cache entry. For example, if the server's connection closes
while transferring data, we receive CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE. We don't want
this cache entry to be treated as valid in a subsequent request.
This directive allows our disk cache to serve stale responses for a time
indicated by the directive itself, while we revalidate the response in
the background.
Issuing requests that weren't initiated by a client is a new thing for
RequestServer. In this implementation, we associate the request with
the client that initiated the request to the stale cache entry. This
adds a "background request" mode to the Request object, to prevent us
from trying to send any of the revalidation response over IPC.
This wouldn't actually result in false positives. If a test failed, the
expectation error message above this line would print, and then we would
fail the test. The point of this flag is just to avoid printing "PASS!"
as well, to avoid confusion.
Our HTTP disk cache is currently manually tested against various sites.
This patch adds some tests to cover various scenarios, including non-
cacheable responses, expired responses, and revalidation.
In order to ensure we hit the disk cache in RequestServer, we must
disable the in-memory cache in WebContent.
