Cache control through htaccess
Tried this on a live site with a large image of name like something-welding-something.png
<IfModule mod_headers.c>
<FilesMatch "welding"> Header set Cache-Control "max-age=30, public" </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>
How do I prove it works? What am I doing wrong?
In Firefox enter yourdomainurl into the url box. Display webpage.
Open Firefox dev window go to network tab and filter by welding
On webpage hit <Ctrl-F5> network traffic shows image fetched from server.
Open another browser tab and look at about:cache?storage=disk Find the image and the expiry time is 30s past last modified time.
On webpage hit <Ctrl-R> network traffic shows cached. On webpage hit <Ctrl-R> nothing appears in network traffic!! On webpage hit <Ctrl-R> nothing appears in network traffic!! Wait, hit <Ctrl-R> again still But on the about:cache page the Last Modified time is now after the Expires time!
Enter some other domain (e.g. bbc.co.uk) into the url box instead of yourdomainurl.
Wait 30 seconds and then re-enter yourdomainurl (do not use back button). Network traffic for image shows cached. The expiry time now shows No expiration time.
Krejt Përgjigjet (1)
If a cached resource has expired, it is strange that reloading doesn't at least ping the server to see whether the resource has been updated.
I don't know whether that is intentional or accidental.
Maybe someone else knows why that would be.
Alternately, if this causes a problem, you could submit a bug report on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/