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ETagLastModified is a hypothetical concept that combines two common HTTP caching mechanisms: ETag (entity tag) and Last-Modified. In web development, ETags are unique identifiers assigned to resources, often based on their content. The Last-Modified header indicates the date and time a resource was last changed. When a client requests a resource, it can send these values back to the server in an If-None-Match (for ETags) or If-Modified-Since (for Last-Modified) header. The server then compares these values to the current ETag or Last-Modified date of the resource. If they match, indicating the resource hasn't changed, the server can respond with a 304 Not Modified status code, saving bandwidth and improving performance by allowing the client to use its cached version. ETagLastModified suggests a unified approach where either or both of these validation mechanisms could be used by a client and understood by a server to efficiently manage cached web content. This combined approach offers redundancy; if one method is less precise or available, the other can still be used for cache validation.