FLV cache headers?

Server NGINX
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Can FLV files be cached to the browser? I’m passing the “expires max”
tag
which looks like its working as this is the response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.1.12
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:13:09 GMT
Content-Type: video/x-flv
Content-Length: 8919417
Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:13:19 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=315360000
Accept-Ranges: bytes

but when I look in Firebug, there’s no cache header and reloading the
page, well, reloads the file.

Can anyone explain? are FLV files not cacheable by browsers as they
are considered streams?

Thanks

2

Hello!

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 02:25:35PM -0500, Ilan B. wrote:

Expires: Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=315360000
Accept-Ranges: bytes

but when I look in Firebug, there’s no cache header and reloading the
page, well, reloads the file.

Can anyone explain? are FLV files not cacheable by browsers as they
are considered streams?

I suspect the problem isn’t browsers, but Flash.

Maxim D.

3

Afaik Flash should support that way of caching, at least if not
requested via ?start=xx (when seeking). I think you should not set a
caching value of more than a year in max-age and Expires headers (it
barely makes sense anyway).

Also its probably a good idea to use the same caching value in both
Expires and max-age headers, so you have consistent behavior on the
client side. In this request you set max-age to 10 years and Expires to
2037 (26 years).

Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:25:35 -0500
Subject: FLV cache headers?
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]

Can FLV files be cached to the browser? I’m passing the “expires max”
tag which looks like its working as this is the response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.1.12
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:13:09 GMT
Content-Type: video/x-flv
Content-Length: 8919417
Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 04:13:19 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Expires: Thu, 31 Dec 2037 23:55:55 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=315360000
Accept-Ranges: bytesbut when I look in Firebug, there’s no cache header
and reloading the page, well, reloads the file.
Can anyone explain? are FLV files not cacheable by browsers as they are
considered streams?

Thanks