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		SahAssar on March 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stac... If the data cannot change and is not gated by AuthZ/AuthN then it is usually called a public cache. If the data cannot change but is controlled by AuthZ/AuthN then it is pretty clearly not stateless. I get what you mean, but calling a cache "stateless" seems like a contradiction in terms to me.

joshuamorton on March 15, 2020 [–]

Well it isn't "public", since its only available if you're on Google's internal production network, and in that sense, nothing on the network is public.

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