At times during development, it would be really nice to prevent HTTP 304 responses (in favor of 200\'s), and cause the Connect/Express static middleware to read every r
it does read from the file system on every response. it's just that if the request ETAG matches the response ETAG, it doesn't send the body of the response because it doesn't have to . It's the same file with the same hash. this is how 304 responses work.