[qwertox]

When Chrome serves a cached page, like when you click a on this page and then navitate back or hit F5, it shows it like this:

Request URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46196076

Request Method: GET

Status Code: 200 OK (from disk cache)

I just thought that it would be worthwhile investigating in that direction.

[jorams]

That's a different situation. The browser decides what to do depending on the situation and what was communicated about caching. Sometimes it sends a request to the server along with information about what it already has. Then it can get back a 304. Other times it already knows the cached data is fine, so it doesn't send a request to the server in the first place. The developer tools show this as a cached 200.

[qwertox]

Got it, thanks for explaining.