Resin Pro 3.1.9

-tyson

On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Alex <a...@caucho.com> wrote:
> Hi Tyson,
>
> What's version of resin is this on?
>
> thanks
> Alex
>>
>> Not sure this is a bug with GzipFilter or expected behavior, but found
>> something worth sharing and dropping in the forum record for others to find.
>>
>> We had a problem distributing content to a CDN and keeping it in cache there
>> because the CDN was requesting content with an "Accept-Encoding: gzip"
>> request header, which was causing our GzipFilter to slap a "Cache-Control:
>> private" response header via the http response object. Our file servlet (an
>> extension of the default resin file servlet) was adding a Cache-Control
>> header with "max-age=840000, public" that the GzipFilter ended up writing
>> "Cache-Control: max-age=84000, public, private".  In our testing, we were
>> using curl to test/examine the headers, so we didn't pick up that the
>> private cache control header was being added.  Our CDN provider, however,
>> was testing with a user agent that indicated it accepted the gzip encoding
>> and was thus seeing the cache-control header appear. Made for a lively
>> debate.  Thus, they were seeing the private declaration and not caching the
>> result.
>>
>> So, we had to add an exclude-pattern to our GzipFilter configuration to not
>> pick up files in the directory we wanted to control caching on. So, fyi,
>> either GzipFilter has a bug in that it is not honoring Cache-Control headers
>> set by responses further downstream, or it is operating properly and you
>> must remember to disable the GzipFilter on content you want to be cached
>> publicly. It would be nice if GzipFilter honored cache-control directives.
>> configuration e.g.:
>>
>> <filter-mapping>
>>        <filter-name>gzip</filter-name>
>>        <url-pattern>
>>            <exclude-pattern>*.zip</exclude-pattern>
>>            <include-pattern>/*</include-pattern>
>>        </url-pattern>
>>    </filter-mapping>
>>
>> -tyson
>>
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