[Zope] Caching ImageFiles

Peter Bengtsson peterbe at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 12:23:53 EDT 2005


This might be a FAQ but I'm willing to take a chance.
In class ImageFile (from App/ImageFile.py) the following headers are
set when you view an ImageFile object:

<pseudocode>
'Content-Type': self.content_type
'Last-Modified': self.lmh # RFC1123
'Cache-Control': 'public,max-age=3600'
</pseudocode>

What is the difference between 'Cache-Control' and 'Expires'?
What is best to use and for what?

I no longer know exactly why but in all my stylesheet DTML methods I set
'Expires': (DateTime()+10/24.0).rfc822() # 10 hours
but not the 'Cache-Control'. 

Should I use both? 

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