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Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Sat Jan 9 02:04:12 UTC 2010


On Fri, 8 Jan 2010, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:42:35AM -0800, Darren VanBuren wrote:
> > On the matter of Expires, here's what would need to be added to an
> > Apache config, assuming static stuff is in /srv/web/static:
> >
> > <Directory /srv/web/static>
> > ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
> > ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
> > ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
> > ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 month"
> > </Directory>
> >
> > Of course we can tweak the times, I just made up 1 month.
> >
> Is this how Expires work? ::
>
>   * Client requests fp.o/static/fedora.css
>   * Client receives fedora.css with an Expires line of 1 month
>   * For the next month, the client does not retrieve new versions of
>     fedora.css.
>
> If so, we're either going to want to keep the Expires time pretty low (an
> hour or less) or start adding version information into all of our static
> resources.
>

That's a great question and one I've been curious about as well.  how's
that whole system supposed to work?  What if I close the browser?  Will
it still use the cache if it was set to 1 month?

	-Mike




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