HTTP Immutable Responses Proposed Standard

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Mozilla has proposed immutable, an extension, to Cache-Control HTTP response header that can be very useful in the IPFS context where the content has infinite guaranteed immutable lifetime. Though, this will only be true when the hash reference is used in the URI. An IPNS mapping on the other hand is not considered immutable.

Here is the abstract of the proposed standard:

Abstract

   The immutable HTTP response Cache-Control extension allows servers to
   identify resources that will not be updated during their freshness
   lifetime.  This assures that a client never needs to revalidate a
   cached fresh resource to be certain it has not been modified.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-immutable/

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Good news, this is already implemented:

$ curl -sI https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRntGzjaSdZZ5j45vxwy2cXvSBeKLWuRkugyvosJDrSgA | grep immutable
Cache-Control: public, max-age=29030400, immutable
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