Cache-control headers.

[james]

Ok I'm one of those "if all you care about is blazing fast speed, and you don't update your site that often, you can safely set this to True".

So I enabled "Client-Side cache".

Here's are my current response header:

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HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
ETag: ""
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:41:21 GMT
Content-Length: 29272

Question: I would like browsers to cache pages for 1 hour and not to check for new versions until 3600 seconds. What is the best way to accomplish this?

Should I just add...

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Cache-control: Max-Age=3600

to the server headers or is there a better way?

Also I'm curious without any cache-control added by me how long are browsers caching pages?

Thanks!

[james]

Thanks for your help Jason. Our website is flying now!