Stop Caching Flash files 2007-11-06 - By MyTest Email
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I will start on a filter now
Thanks Bill
On 11/6/07, Bill Barker <wbarker@(protected)> wrote:
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> "MyTest Email" <betasignup@(protected)> wrote in message
> news:6027d6f90711061744l1e9f5272t15bde1d5f004baa3@(protected)
> >I need to set tomcat to allways send a new copy of the flash file on the
> > server and not send a cached copy, not have proxy servers cache the
> file,
> > etc.
> >
> > I know that there are client, server and proxy issues but I'm looking to
> > see
> > what tomcat configuration can do to assit me to have proxy servers and
> > tomcat not cache the flash files.
> >
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> It is possible to set cachingAllowed="false" on the <Context /> element to
> prevent Tomcat from caching, but except in extreme cases it is usually
> useless because of a short TTL (5sec by default). See
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5 (See http://cat-5.ora-code.com).5-doc/config/context.html for more
> details
> on Tomcat caching options.
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> Otherwise, you have to roll your own Filter that will set the caching
> headers (Expires, Cache-Control, Pragma, etc) to control proxy server
> caching. Tomcat doesn't provide anything out-of-the-box to do this sort
> of
> thing.
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> > With Apache's mod_expire you can set specific file types to not be
> cached.
> > This is claimed to be great for proxy servers.
> >
> >
> >
> > e.g.
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> >
> > ExpiresActive On
> >
> > ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
> >
> > ExpiresByType image/png A2592000
> >
> > ExpiresByType image/jpg A2592000
> >
> > ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
> >
> > ExpiresByType application/x-javascript A2592000
> >
> > ExpiresByType application/x-Shockwave-Flash A2592000
> >
> >
> > is there an equivalent method for tomcat?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> > -Steve
> >
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