[Cosmo-dev] Cacheing bugs on cosmo js

[Matthew Eernisse]

After digging a bit, it appears that the query string option is not that 
attractive considering our support for Safari. From this article:

http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast

"According the letter of the HTTP caching specification, user agents 
should never cache URLs with query strings. While Internet Explorer and 
Firefox ignore this, Opera and Safari don’t - to make sure all user 
agents can cache your resources, we need to keep query strings out of 
their URLs."

Using a query string would mean that our good friend Safari would 
*never* cache the file, which is probably not what we want either.

Here's an idea -- has anybody suggested doing some URL rewriting magic 
to map a versioned path to the real 'js' directory in the web app? Could 
the build process take care of keeping that mapping up to date?

Something like:

/js-SNAPSHOT-0.6/ => /js/

Just trying to consider all the possibilities.


M.


Travis Vachon wrote:
> The big reason is that we'd need to change this in SVN between releases. 
> Because the "lib" directory is generated by the build process, we can 
> add this information there.
> 
> -Travis