Caching is good for you
I’ve asked [Apache][] to start sending out Cache-Control
and Expires
headers for PNG and JPEG images. They are set to expire after one week — this means that your browser wont even try to load the images from my server until a week has passed. This should give you a more smooth browsing experience because the browser only fetches the [XHTML][].
The trick is very simple, just add the following to a .htaccess
file:
<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "now plus 1 week"
ExpiresByType image/png "now plus 1 week"
</IfModule>
Also, I’ve turned indexes on in the /downloads/
directory —
this is also very simple, just make a .htaccess
file with
Options +Indexes
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