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Playing w/ HttpDetect, I captured the following HTTP transaction between Sauce Reader and Adam Curry's blog. Sometimes, it's just nice to view the end results of some 304 Not Modified success stories. Note also the accept gzip encoding.

HTTP Request
GET /rss.xml HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Sauce Reader/1.9 (.NET CLR 1.1.4322.2032; WinNT 5.1.2600.0)
If-Modified-Since: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:49:22 GMT
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cache-Control: no-cache
If-None-Match: "374810-4597-4174f70d"
Host: live.curry.com

HTTP Response
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:42:37 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.2b
ETag: "374810-4597-4174f70d"

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