def request(self, _cache_key, _cache_ignore, _cache_timeout, **kwargs):
        """
        This is a wrapper function that handles the caching of the request.

        See DefaultHandler.with_cache for reference.
        """
        if _cache_key:
            # Pop the request's session cookies from the cache key.
            # These appear to be unreliable and change with every
            # request. Also, with the introduction of OAuth I don't think
            # that cookies are being used to store anything that
            # differentiates API requests anyways
            url, items = _cache_key
            _cache_key = (url, (items[0], items[1], items[3], items[4]))

        if kwargs['request'].method != 'GET':
            # I added this check for RTV, I have no idea why PRAW would ever
            # want to cache POST/PUT/DELETE requests
            _cache_ignore = True

        if _cache_ignore:
            return self._request(**kwargs)

        self._clear_timeouts(_cache_timeout)
        if _cache_key in self.cache:
            return self.cache[_cache_key]

        result = self._request(**kwargs)

        # The handlers don't call `raise_for_status` so we need to ignore
        # status codes that will result in an exception that should not be
        # cached.
        if result.status_code not in (200, 302):
            return result

        self.timeouts[_cache_key] = timer()
        self.cache[_cache_key] = result
        return result

        This is a wrapper function that handles the caching of the request.

        See DefaultHandler.with_cache for reference.
        
rtv/content.py