When web2py serves static files, it does set the Last-Modified header, but I'm not sure that's enough to prompt an If-Modified-Since request -- we may need to add a max-age=0 and/or must-revalidate directive as well.
Anthony On Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:54:54 PM UTC-4, Derek wrote: > > I think the second option is the better one. Even better would be to > support the If-Modified-Since or use ETAG. > > On Thursday, May 10, 2012 11:36:01 AM UTC-7, Niphlod wrote: >> >> Expiring headers wouldn't be smart.... what if you changed the html >> trusting that the new javascript will be fetched instead of the cached one ? >> Or, you choose to set expire headers 2 days in the future, and you need >> to make a change to the code, but need to wait 2 days to wait for >> expiration..... >> the only solution is versioning static files..... >> >> e.g. /static/js/1.2.3/mysnippet.js vs /static/js/1.2.4/mysnippet.js >> or >> /static/js/mysnippet.js?ver=1.2.3 vs /static/js/mysnippet.js?ver=1.2.4 >> >> >> >> Il giorno martedì 8 maggio 2012 21:25:26 UTC+2, Derek ha scritto: >>> >>> That would fix it for the one system - but if you have site that is used >>> by many, are you going to have everyone empty their cache? Isn't there a >>> way to set the cache headers? >>> >>> On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 10:34:30 AM UTC-7, Anthony wrote: >>>> >>>> It's probably being cached by the browser, so you may need to clear the >>>> browser cache (simply refreshing the page won't do it). >>>> >>>> Anthony >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, May 8, 2012 1:11:51 PM UTC-4, monotasker wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm working on a js file that resides in appname/static/js/ but for >>>>> some reason it seems to be cached. When I refresh the browser (even if I >>>>> restart the local web2py server) the page continues to load an old >>>>> version. >>>>> I develop largely with custom modules, and those files are refreshing >>>>> just >>>>> fine. I have this in my db.py model file: >>>>> >>>>> from gluon.custom_import import track_changes >>>>> track_changes(True) >>>>> >>>>> But for some reason this javascript file doesn't want to refresh. Any >>>>> suggestions? >>>>> >>>>> Ian >>>>> >>>>
