I'm hitting this url:
http://www.spotlight.com/photo/~30x50/ffffff/crop/1/M195605.jpg
in Google Chrome 40.0.2214.115 m and in Firefox 33.0.2
In Firefox, when I press F5 to refresh the page, it sends these request headers:
Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate
Accept-Language en-GB,en;q=0.5
Cache-Control max-age=0
Connection keep-alive
Host www.spotlight.com
If-None-Match w/PTxYoQtZLHNE2hqq5W0w==
User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
In Chrome, I get these headers:
Accept:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language:en-GB,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.6
Cache-Control:no-cache
Connection:keep-alive
Host:www.spotlight.com
Pragma:no-cache
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/40.0.2214.115 Safari/537.36
The response includes an HTTP ETag header. On subsequent requests to the same URL, Firefox sends the correct If-None-Match ETag header, but Chrome is sending Pragma:no-cache and not sending a If-None-Match header.
Any idea why Chrome is doing this?