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adarsh hegde
adarsh hegde

Reputation: 1383

Pages not getting cached in browser

I am using apache tomcat server and have a web application rendering several js,css and image files. I want to make sure that these files are cached by the browser so that they are not requested each time. However, I noticed that some files are getting cached while others are not. I found out that the response header from the app has Expires : "Dec 31 1969 at 7:00 PM". After going through this I removed the tomcat security-constraint from the web.xml which removed the header successfully. I also configured the Expires header in my app to 1 week from present. That too didn't make sure that the pages are cached.

Following this I configured the Cache-Control header to public with max-age set to 1 week. None of these changes are helping me. Moreover, the pages getting cached and not getting cached have the same headers as below:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: max-age=604800, public
ETag: 240983
Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Sep 2016 18:49:42 GMT
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 07:34:25 GMT
via: HTTP/1.1 ab-d-klt-tom1
Expires: Wed, 08 Feb 2017 07:35:29 GMT
Content-Type: application/x-javascript
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN
X-Powered-By: Servlet/3.0
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Server: Apache

Apart from this I have also tried the ExpiresFilter as described here without any luck.

EDIT : My application when deployed in a windows environment with Tomcat and no SSL is successfully caching all the files in the browser.

However, when the app is deployed in a Linux environment with Tomcat and SSL is not caching files. Is SSL causing this?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1258

Answers (1)

Lionia Vasilev
Lionia Vasilev

Reputation: 12748

You need to get rid of SSL certificate error. Chrome does not cache resources with such errors.

For more information check Chromium issues below:

Upvotes: 3

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