On Jun 28, 2012, at 5:51 PM, Anthony wrote: > Although since the files are really not dynamic, they could be aggressively > cached. > > Good point. > > @cache(request.env.path_info, time_expire=60*60*24, cache_model=cache.ram) > def css_js(): > response.view = '../static/%s' % '/'.join(request.args) > return response.render() > > caches for a day. Still won't be as fast as using the web server to serve a > static file, though. You could also set response.headers to tell the browser > to cache the files, which would probably be a bigger benefit. >
That's what I meant. I did that in an earlier project, where I used semi-dynamic CSS more aggressively, caching colors by name, stuff like that. CSS in a web2py template is a pretty nice way to write CSS. ISTR that I sent Massimo a patch (applied) to make it easier to accomplish.
