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javascripthtmlcsscaching
user3427540
user3427540

Reputation: 1172

Will any browser ignore cache control headers for URLs with a query string?

I have a whole lot of css changes for my site. So I have used versioning to load the updated css files. But from some article I came to know that when some browsers like IE see a question mark they always hit the server to get the file but does not use the cache?

Is this true?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 235

Answers (1)

Niet the Dark Absol
Niet the Dark Absol

Reputation: 324750

It varies. The main concern is not IE, but rather proxy servers between you and the client.

Personally, I use links of the form //example.com/t=12345/css/main.css

That t=12345 is the file's modification time, inserted by my "static resource management" class.

Then, a simple .htaccess rewrite rule strips that part out, leaving just /css/main.css as the target file.

From the browser's perspective, it's just a weirdly named folder, and it will cache according to the headers it receives. This will work for proxy servers too. Anything that can cache, will cache.

Upvotes: 1

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