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> I'd probably try to utilize some variation of content-based addressing, eg having the url have the hash of the content

Fingerprinted assets with max expiration has been standard practice for years in many frameworks.

However, even fingerprinted assets with max expiration are revalidated when the user hits the refresh button since historically this is what refresh has meant. The `immutable` header just allow skipping the validation.



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