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Add Caching Headers

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start by reviewing the File and Directory Resolvers and how UPWARD PHP currently sets response headers. Determine the caching policy, including lifetimes, ETags, and when headers apply, then define options for disabling or clearing them in development versus production. Done means requests receive the appropriate cache headers under the selected policy.

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Description

All requests going through UPWARD PHP, including those for static files, include Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate. There needs to be some better handling of response caching, especially for File & Directory Resolvers

  • Determine what the appropriate caching policy should be
    • What should the cache lifetime be?
    • Should we include an ETag, or are those passé?
    • In what cases should a cache header be included or not?
  • Add the appropriate cache headers
  • What options should there be for disabling or clearing these headers (eg for development vs production)?
Dominant language
PHP
Stars
14
Forks
16
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No merged PRs in 30d

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