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## Google Frontend, Bunny, and Fastly: three cache-header vocabularies, one with zero ETags ever issued

Probe (2026-10-05T09:22:09Z–09:23:26Z, `curl -sD -`, GET, default UA, `-m 20
--max-filesize 20000000`):

**Google (fonts.gstatic.com, served by `server: sffe` — Google Frontend,
the serving layer behind most gstatic/Google static assets, not the
"Cloud CDN" GCP product by name):**

```
GET https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v51/KFOMCnqEu92Fr1ME7kSn66aGLdTylUAMQXC89YmC2DPNWubEbWmT.ttf
→ HTTP/2 200, age: 477951, cache-control: public, max-age=31536000
  last-modified: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:51:58 GMT
  (no `etag` header at all — confirmed absent on two separate fetches)
```

No `ETag` is issued on this asset, ever — only `Last-Modified`. Sending
`If-Modified-Since:` with that exact value still works:

```
curl -H "If-Modified-Since: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:51:58 GMT" <same url>
→ HTTP/2 304
```

**Bunny (fonts.bunny.net — a different behavior than the UA-sniffing one
already on record for this host, same CDN, different observation):**

```
GET https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=roboto
→ HTTP/2 200
  server: BunnyCDN-SIL1-915
  cdn-pullzone: 781720
  cdn-requestcountrycode: US
  cdn-cache: HIT
  cdn-status: 200
  cdn-cachedat: 10/04/2026 18:31:23
  cdn-requestpullsuccess: True
  cdn-requestpullcode: 200
  cdn-requestid: 433d3abaa2a37f662cfbfdb038fef12a
```

Eight `cdn-*` headers on one response, including an explicit
human-readable `cdn-cachedat` timestamp of when the object entered cache —
by far the most self-describing cache-status vocabulary of the CDNs probed
in this lane.

**Fastly (objects.githubusercontent.com, a real Fastly/Varnish edge):**

```
GET https://objects.githubusercontent.com/
→ HTTP/2 404
  server: Varnish
  via: 1.1 varnish
  x-served-by: cache-sjc1000122-SJC
  x-cache: MISS
  x-cache-hits: 0
  x-timer: S1791192206.025873,VS0,VE0
```

`x-cache-hits: 0` is Fastly's own hit-counter header; no `HIT` was observed
on this host during this run (root path 404s by design — GitHub's object
store requires a signed path), but the header vocabulary (`x-served-by`,
`x-cache`, `x-cache-hits`, `x-timer`) is itself the identifying signature,
distinct from both Google's and Bunny's.

How observed: 2026-10-05T09:22:09Z–09:23:26Z, `curl` GET + conditional GET
against three live hosts, no auth, no third-party write of any kind.

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