[Zope3-dev] Zope resources and browser caching

Garrett Smith garrett at mojave-corp.com
Thu Mar 10 18:19:03 EST 2005


Jim Fulton wrote:
> Garrett Smith wrote:
>> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> 
>>> Garrett Smith wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm noticing that browser hit the server (Zope) for all images on a
>>>> page for *every* request. I would assume that browsers cache images
>>>> unless the server says they've changed.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know much about this, so it might be a stupid question.
>>>> 
>>>> Is Zope telling the browser that each image needs to be acquired
>>>> for every request? Is this something that can possibly be tweaked
>>>> on Zope's side? Or my configuration?
>>> 
>>> I'm 99% sure that for file resources, Zope is setting the
>>> cache-control headers to cache resources for a day.  You can verify
>>> this with tcpwatch. (I have verifed this myself recently, but it's
>>> nice to see for yourself.)
>> 
>> 
>> Hmm...these images are coming from a resource directory.
> 
> Hm, maybe that implementation is bad. tcpwatch will tell you for sure.

So you're saying I should learn tcpwtch, eh? ;)

sigh


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