diff --git a/src/api/s3_get.rs b/src/api/s3_get.rs
index 0e3caad63..2590c9bd3 100644
--- a/src/api/s3_get.rs
+++ b/src/api/s3_get.rs
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ fn try_answer_cached(
version_meta: &ObjectVersionMeta,
req: &Request
,
) -> Option> {
+ // It is possible, and is even usually the case, [that both If-None-Match and
+ // If-Modified-Since] are present in a request. In this situation If-None-Match takes
+ // precedence and If-Modified-Since is ignored (as per 6.Precedence from rfc7232). The rational
+ // being that etag based matching is more accurate, it has no issue with sub-second precision
+ // for instance (in case of very fast updates)
let cached = if let Some(none_match) = req.headers().get(http::header::IF_NONE_MATCH) {
let none_match = none_match.to_str().ok()?;
let expected = format!("\"{}\"", version_meta.etag);