Alright... I think I might have tracked it down. I think it's an issue with "Vary: Cookie" and it appears their is a fix for making this header only show up when the request varies on the cookie. http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/3586
Haven't confirmed this yet, but seem like the issue. Matt On Dec 4, 10:58 am, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. I am trying to get a JS file cached by the browser using per-view > caching with @cache_page and/or @cache_control. But the file is not > getting cached as I would like. > > I have the following scenario: A view generates a JavaScript file that > is unique for each user. However the JS file rarely changes for a > user. > > ----In view.py----------------------- > @cache_page(37000) > @cache_control(private=True, max_age=37000) > def user_unique_js(request): > ----------------------------------------- > > When accessing the page using FireFox I can check out the HTTP headers > and they look like the following: > ------------------------------------------------ > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:59:43 GMT > Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4 PHP/ > 5.2.0-8+etch7 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c > Expires: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:16:23 GMT > Vary: Cookie > Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:59:43 GMT > Etag: af0d1f45cb03ee198342ddb280f3164d > Cache-Control: private, max-age=37000 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 > ------------------------------------------------- > > However, from looking at the cache using about:cache, it appears the > JS file get reloaded each time the page is loaded. > > ---- From about:cache ------------------------- > last fetched: 2007-12-04 10:54:08 > last modified: 2007-12-04 10:54:04 > expires: 2007-12-04 20:16:23 > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > The static JS files served by Apache do get cached. Their headers look > like the following: > ---------------------------------------------------------- > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:58:27 GMT > Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian) mod_python/3.2.10 Python/2.4.4 PHP/ > 5.2.0-8+etch7 mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.8c > Last-Modified: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:59:20 GMT > Etag: "67bf-8136-37463600" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 33078 > Content-Type: application/x-javascript > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- From about:cache ------------------------- > last fetched: 2007-12-04 10:54:06 > last modified: 2007-12-04 10:52:48 > expires: 2007-12-04 11:52:21 > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Does anyone have an idea of what the issue could? Am I attempting to > cache the file properly? > > Thanks, > Matt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

