Events are optimized for polling with the "ETag" header. If no new events have

been triggered, you will see a "304 Not Modified" response, and your current

rate limit will be untouched. There is also an "X-Poll-Interval" header that

specifies how often (in seconds) you are allowed to poll. In times of high

server load, the time may increase. Please obey the header.

$ curl -I https://api.github.com/users/tater/events

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

X-Poll-Interval: 60

ETag: "a18c3bded88eb5dbb5c849a489412bf3"

# The quotes around the ETag value are important

$ curl -I https://api.github.com/users/tater/events \

-H 'If-None-Match: "a18c3bded88eb5dbb5c849a489412bf3"'

HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified

X-Poll-Interval: 60