[keycloak-dev] Improve browser caching?

[Stian Thorgersen]

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-1017 ;)

I was thinking it would be cleaner to add it to the URL of theme resources.

/auth/theme/.../<VERSION>/stylesheet.css

This works better for relative URLs.

Not sure I like using the release version, we could have a short hash or just an incrementing number.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marek Posolda" <mposolda at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2015 11:00:07 PM
> Subject: [keycloak-dev] Improve browser caching?
> 
> We seem to have many questions each release related to non-working
> things due to stale browser cache. Usually it's due to changes in admin
> console, but it may be even worse if we ever change something in CSS/JS
> of login or account mgmt, as those are available for end users.
> 
> I wonder if we can somehow improve this? One possible solution is to
> attach the redundant parameter with version to the cached resources.
> Something like: "/auth/theme/.../stylesheet.css?v=1.1.0.Final", so
> upgrade to next version will force browser to reload the resource.
> 
> The problem is longer (and not so nice) URLs and also some refactoring
> needed. For freemarker templates, we can add version parameter at
> runtime. However for admin console HTML pages, we would need to add
> version somehow at compile time though.
> 
> There is also possibility to attach hash instead of version (Juca
> mentioned this to me some time ago), but not sure if it's big difference.
> 
> Any better ideas? Or should we rather just keep it as it is?
> 
> Marek
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