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spasticdonkey
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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:44 am Reply with quote
I was curious why some of the content is set to expire so quickly in the RN htaccess ?
ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 5 minutes"
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/plain "access plus 15 minutes"
ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType video/x-flv "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 5 minutes"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 5 minutes"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 5 minutes"

Specifically the CSS and JS files....?
 
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Guardian2003
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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 12:37 pm Reply with quote
It's a compromise.
If you know that you wont be changing any images, css or js then you could extend the cache life but even at these relatively low values t often requires a page fresh when pasting new news or module setting changes to force an update.
 
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spasticdonkey
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 1:54 pm Reply with quote
thx, sounds like it's set that way for developers Smile
I'll go ahead and crank those setting up, since it's not really necessary for my users to re-download all my js and css on daily basis; or more than once per session.

If you have 50 users visiting your site daily, accessing 100k in various scripts and css, that adds up when your paying for bandwidth (1.5gb)
 
Guardian2003
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 2:19 pm Reply with quote
CSS and JS is usually cached by the browser but every little helps Smile
 
montego
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PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 8:12 pm Reply with quote
spasticdonkey, I don't know that I would call it "for developers". For if you publish a change to a page which also requires a change to a JS file in order to work properly, how long are you willing to wait for it to work again????

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spasticdonkey
PostPosted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:16 pm Reply with quote
this looks like a interesting approach

http://particletree.com/notebook/automatically-version-your-css-and-javascript-files/

then you can cache as long as you want Smile

and better than inserting a fake variable for version'n
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.somesite.com/style.css?version=1" type="text/css" />
 
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