Re: Patch - For caching with 304 Not Modified

[Simon Smith <amazingdancingbear@gmail.com>]

I'll take a look into the configuration of the Apache server to serve
these files. I didn't know you could set it up like that.

Thanks,

Simon


On Jul 21, 1:16 pm, Eric Wong <normalper...@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Simon Smith <amazingdancingb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch seems to work but it seems strange that it is missing in
> > the first place as there are so many users of Rack and Rails and I
> > cannot find any information pertaining to other users with this
> > problem. I am wondering if there is an alternate way to handle this
> > caching without modifying the rack code itself and I am just missing a
> > configuration option in Rails, do you know of one?
>
> Rack already includes a Rack::ConditionalGet middleware which users can
> load if needed.
>
> However, I suspect most Rails users use a non-Rack server such as nginx
> or Apache to serve static files, so having such middleware (or even
> Rack::File) would be redundant.
>
> --
> Eric Wong