feat: allow conditional revalidation for QUERY requests (v4) (#7377)

* feat: allow conditional revalidation for QUERY requests

* docs: history

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Co-authored-by: Sebastian Beltran <bjohansebas@gmail.com>

Author: Cherry

History.md

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+unreleased
+==========
+
+  * Allow conditional revalidation for QUERY requests
+    - `req.fresh` now includes QUERY in the freshness check, so QUERY responses can return 304 when a validator matches
+
 4.22.2 / 2026-05-11
 ==========
 

lib/request.js

@@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ defineGetter(req, 'fresh', function(){
   var res = this.res
   var status = res.statusCode
 
-  // GET or HEAD for weak freshness validation only
-  if ('GET' !== method && 'HEAD' !== method) return false;
+  // GET, HEAD, or QUERY for weak freshness validation only
+  if ('GET' !== method && 'HEAD' !== method && 'QUERY' !== method) return false;
 
   // 2xx or 304 as per rfc2616 14.26
   if ((status >= 200 && status < 300) || 304 === status) {

test/req.fresh.js

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 var express = require('../')
   , request = require('supertest');
+var shouldSkipQuery = require('./support/utils').shouldSkipQuery
 
 describe('req', function(){
   describe('.fresh', function(){
@@ -46,5 +47,42 @@ describe('req', function(){
       .get('/')
       .expect(200, 'false', done);
     })
+
+    it('should return true for a QUERY request with a body when the resource is not modified', function(done){
+      if (shouldSkipQuery(process.versions.node)) {
+        this.skip()
+      }
+      var app = express();
+      var etag = '"12345"';
+
+      app.use(function(req, res){
+        res.set('ETag', etag);
+        res.send(req.fresh);
+      });
+
+      request(app)
+      .query('/')
+      .set('If-None-Match', etag)
+      .send({ ids: ['a', 'b'] })
+      .expect(304, done);
+    })
+
+    it('should return false for a QUERY request with a body when the resource is modified', function(done){
+      if (shouldSkipQuery(process.versions.node)) {
+        this.skip()
+      }
+      var app = express();
+
+      app.use(function(req, res){
+        res.set('ETag', '"123"');
+        res.send(req.fresh);
+      });
+
+      request(app)
+      .query('/')
+      .set('If-None-Match', '"12345"')
+      .send({ ids: ['a', 'b'] })
+      .expect(200, 'false', done);
+    })
   })
 })