Support for stale-while-invalidate

[erikvanzijst]

RFC-5861 introduces a cache-control extension "stale-while-invalidate":

When present in an HTTP response, the stale-while-revalidate Cache-
Control extension indicates that caches MAY serve the response in
which it appears after it becomes stale, up to the indicated number
of seconds.

If a cached response is served stale due to the presence of this
extension, the cache SHOULD attempt to revalidate it while still
serving stale responses (i.e., without blocking).

We're talking to a service that uses this directive, which is causing our client to log an error:

cachecontrol.controller | Ignoring unknown cache-control directive: stale-while-revalidate

AFAICT stale-while-invalidate is not an official directive and is not part of RFC-7234 (caching), but there might be value in supporting it in cachecontrol nonetheless.

[waggledans]

yeah, would be nice to have this.
My application could also use stale-if-error to improve reliability