I am trying to add a expires header to the nginx configuration like this :
location ~* \.css|\.js|\.jpg|\.jpeg|\.png|\.gif|\.swf|\.svg|\.tiff|\.pdf|\.ico$
{
expires max;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
What is expected :
I shouldn't see any line in the network tab of developer console of chrome or firebug for the static content.
But I find that the browser re-requesting the headers always with every request, no matter how you send it. ( with either f5 or loading the link through new tab ) and it comes back with a 304 response code.
Any idea how to make the browser understand that it is not supposed to ask till year 2037??
edit : response/request headers :
Response headers :
Request URL:http://static.shrinath.cm.com/css/maintenance_view.css
Request Method:GET
Status Code:304 Not Modified
Request Headersview source
Request headers :
Accept:text/css,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Charset:UTF-8,*;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language:en-US,en;q=0.8
Cache-Control:max-age=0
Connection:keep-alive
Host:static.shrinath.cm.com
If-Modified-Since:Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:46:58 GMT
Referer:http://shrinath.cm.com/maintenance
User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/11.04 Chromium/14.0.821.0 Chrome/14.0.821.0 Safari/535.1
