I noticed there is no general suggestion thread. It would be nice to have a place where we could suggest modifications to the API and features for the API as a whole. And here is the first one already:
Presuming that a lot of the API data is cached on ArenaNet’s side (as there is a definite number of parameters and their values) and the results are not generated for every request individually, I would love to have a “last modified” header in the response.
This would let us skip the checks for data changes and let us cache on our side more effectively.
This would enable us to check for changes in server list and start up an extensive database update routines after content patches or other additions.
[SWD] Tal Emenar
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