A folder containing the package contents as they appear in the tarball\.
.
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\|\.\.\./package\.json:
The package\.json file, as npm sees it, with overlays applied and a _id attribute\.
.
.IP"\(bu"4
\|\.\.\./package\.tgz:
The tarball for that version\.
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Additionally, whenever a registry request is made, a \fB\|\.cache\.json\fR file
is placed at the corresponding URI, to store the ETag and the requested
data\.
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Commands that make non\-essential registry requests (such as \fBsearch\fR and \fBview\fR, or the completion scripts) generally specify a minimum timeout\.
If the \fB\|\.cache\.json\fR file is younger than the specified timeout, then
they do not make an HTTP request to the registry\.