[Twisted-web] .js File caching behavior on different browsers

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:00:24 +0200, lasizoillo <lasizoillo at gmail.com> wrote:
>2008/9/13 Werner Thie <wthie at thiengineering.ch>:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Tried to send this to divmod-dev at divmod.org, but post didn't show up after
>> 12hours.
>>
>> Might be an insanly stupid question but, is there a simple way to force
>> the reload of JScript code for nevow LivePages via a server issued
>> directive?
>
>I never expire a javascript file, I change his url. If I have a
>script.js file, I import script.js?v=1, script.js?v=2, ... This force
>a client reload only with new deploys.

Athena effectively does this automatically.  If JavaScript source files
are changing but the browser isn't requesting the new versions, then
there's a bug somewhere that needs to be fixed.

Jean-Paul