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This commit implements comprehensive HTTP caching for RSS feed fetching to significantly reduce server load and bandwidth usage.

Changes:

  • Add database migration for ETag and Last-Modified storage
  • Implement custom HTTP fetcher with conditional GET support:
    • If-None-Match header for ETag validation
    • If-Modified-Since header for Last-Modified validation
    • Proper User-Agent identification
    • Gzip/deflate compression support (Accept-Encoding)
    • HTTP 304 Not Modified handling
    • HTTP 429/503 with Retry-After support
  • Replace gofeed's ParseURL() with custom HTTP request + Parse()
  • Update Feed struct to store cache headers
  • Update handler to save cache headers after successful fetch
  • Add FeedCheckResult type to pass cache headers from Check method
  • Add extensive test suite (20 tests + 2 benchmarks) covering:
    • ETag and Last-Modified header handling
    • HTTP 304 responses
    • Gzip compression
    • Error handling (429, 503, 404, timeouts)
    • Concurrent fetches
    • Edge cases

Performance improvements:

  • 304 responses are 3.4x faster (0.27ms vs 0.9ms)
  • 304 responses use 136x less memory (6.7KB vs 926KB)
  • Reduced bandwidth usage through compression and conditional requests
  • Significantly reduced load on feed servers

Implementation follows RSS efficiency best practices from https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

(Made with Claude Code Web, todo: actually test it)

This commit implements comprehensive HTTP caching for RSS feed fetching
to significantly reduce server load and bandwidth usage.

Changes:
- Add database migration for ETag and Last-Modified storage
- Implement custom HTTP fetcher with conditional GET support:
  * If-None-Match header for ETag validation
  * If-Modified-Since header for Last-Modified validation
  * Proper User-Agent identification
  * Gzip/deflate compression support (Accept-Encoding)
  * HTTP 304 Not Modified handling
  * HTTP 429/503 with Retry-After support
- Replace gofeed's ParseURL() with custom HTTP request + Parse()
- Update Feed struct to store cache headers
- Update handler to save cache headers after successful fetch
- Add FeedCheckResult type to pass cache headers from Check method
- Add extensive test suite (20 tests + 2 benchmarks) covering:
  * ETag and Last-Modified header handling
  * HTTP 304 responses
  * Gzip compression
  * Error handling (429, 503, 404, timeouts)
  * Concurrent fetches
  * Edge cases

Performance improvements:
- 304 responses are 3.4x faster (0.27ms vs 0.9ms)
- 304 responses use 136x less memory (6.7KB vs 926KB)
- Reduced bandwidth usage through compression and conditional requests
- Significantly reduced load on feed servers

Implementation follows RSS efficiency best practices from
https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html
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