[keycloak-dev] Improve browser caching?

[Pedro Igor Silva]

Or just use KC behind an Apache server and forget about managing that in KC :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stian Thorgersen" <stian at redhat.com>
To: "Pedro Igor Silva" <psilva at redhat.com>
Cc: "Marek Posolda" <mposolda at redhat.com>, keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
Sent: Wednesday, February 4, 2015 5:55:40 AM
Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Improve browser caching?



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pedro Igor Silva" <psilva at redhat.com>
> To: "Marek Posolda" <mposolda at redhat.com>
> Cc: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 February, 2015 11:07:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Improve browser caching?
> 
> What about have something that intercept requests to disable browser caching
> ? A servlet filter or something ...

We actively enable browsing caching to increase performance, so not sure why we would want a filter to disable it?

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marek Posolda" <mposolda at redhat.com>
> To: keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 8:00:07 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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