IIS7 Cache-Control

Question

I'm trying to do something which I thought would be fairly simple. Get IIS 7 to tell clients they can cache all images on my site for a certain amount of time, let's say 24 hours.

I have tried the step on http://www.galcho.com/Blog/post/2008/02/27/IIS7-How-to-set-cache-control-for-static-content.aspx but to no avail. I still get requests going to the server with 304s being returned.

Does anyone have a way of doing this? I have a graphically intensive site and my users are being hammered (so is my server) every time they request a page. Wierdly the images seem to have "Cache-Control private,max-age=3600" showing up in Firebug but the browser is still requesting them when I press F5.

user_17516 · Answer

The F5 Refresh has the semantic of "please reload the current HTML AND its direct dependancies". Hence you should expect to see any imgs, css and js resource directly referenced by the HTML also being refetched. Of course a 304 is an acceptable response to this but F5 refresh implies that the browser will make the request rather than rely on fresh cache content.

Instead try simply navigating somewhere else and then navigating back.

You can force the refresh, past a 304, by holding ctrl while pressing f5 in most browsers.

Instead try simply navigating somewhere else and then navigating back.

You can force the refresh, past a 304, by holding ctrl while pressing f5 in most browsers.

IIS7 Cache-Control

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