Thank you again Robert. I added some rules to the Nginx proxy that I was using allready. This is a good enough solution for my requirements.
I needed a proxy anyway because I wanted to hide some parts of Couchdb from the outer world. Kind regards, Hendrik Jan On 14 April 2012 13:57, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: > You can't currently control response headers for attachments. You can > add some proxy middleware fairly easily, though I concede it's not > ideal. > > The fundamental problem here is that you want to lose cache coherency > for performance reasons. That is, you want to allow the possibility > that a GET will return 304 (Not Modified) even if the item has been > modified. Out of the box, CouchDB won't allow you to violate that > expectation. > > B. > > On 14 April 2012 07:52, Hendrik Jan van Meerveld <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Couchdb people, > > > > Can I set headers for attachments? > > > > I'd like to add headers like > > Cache-Control: max-age=3600, must-revalidate > > ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 years" > > CacheQueries PUBLIC http://www.mysite.com/* > > to image attachments in my couchapp website. > > Because the site is mainly for mobiles, it is very important for me to > > reduce the amount of data and number of HTTP requests. > > > > > > Couchdb user Rober Newson gave me useful information on how to set > headers > > for lists and shows > > https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Formatting_with_Show_and_List > > https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/ExternalProcesses#JSON_Response > > but I cannot find any information on attachments (or probably I don't > > understand the information that I read). > > > > Kind regards, > > Hendrik Jan >
