On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 01:03:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 10:27:31AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: >>On 2/9/2010 9:49 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>with the possible exception of updating the web site to allow hints >>>that setup.exe shouldn't be cached >> >>In the PTC spirit: >> >> <IfModule mod_expires.c> >> ExpiresActive On >> >> <FilesMatch "\.exe$"> >> ExpiresDefault "now" >> </FilesMatch> >> </IfModule> > >Thanks Warren. I appreciate the PTC. This was already suggested here: > >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-02/msg00149.html > >I've implemented that suggestion. Now, in theory, all of the proxies >out there will not cache setup.exe. That should reduce cygwin mailing >list traffic at the expense of network traffic on cygwin.com and on the >networks that the proxies serve. I guess that's a good enough compromise >although I suspect that we'll still hear from misconfigured proxies. > >Thanks to Steven for the original suggestion.
Btw, I did check the difference in http headers in the before/after scenario and now see a new "Expires" field but I have no way of actually checking this to see if it really does solve a problem. FYI. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
