Glad to see that anyone cares about that (cache busting). I'm working on
that, but it has been posponed a few version away.
Back to your problems: the first version should work ok. The second version
is not "supported", because it becomes actually
/myapp/static/css/main.css%3Fv%3D1208301
the ? is escaped and the .css extension is not recognized, so it's not
included.
BTW: if possible, it's generally better to work with versioned folders e.g.
/static/1.2.3/css instead of urls ending in ?something (this will be -
hopefully - the behaviour of next web2py's versions).
Referenced images in the css work ok with versioned folders, not with
?something urls.
On Thursday, August 30, 2012 6:45:26 PM UTC+2, Yarin wrote:
>
> I'm trying to apply a version number to my CSS files as a way to force
> browsers to load the latest version, but the following examples never get
> outputted even though they create valid URLs:
>
> response.files.append(URL('static','css/main.css', vars=dict(v='1208301'
> )))
> or
> response.files.append(URL('static','css/main.css?v=1208301'))
>
> Why won't these work? Is there a better web2py-way for forcing browser
> cached files to reload?
>
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