that caches something into web2py, not into browser.
To cache into browser, probably the most rapid way is to send out expire
headers in the future.
something like this would cache the file into browser for 30 days
You are using the default download function, so if you need this
functionality you must add these lines to that function
def download():
"""
allows downloading of uploaded files
http://..../[app]/default/download/[filename]
"""
import datetime
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public'
response.headers['Expires'] = datetime.datetime.strftime(request.utcnow
+ datetime.timedelta(days=30), '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S GMT')
return response.download(request,db)