Dispatcher and Cache-Control mod_expires

[cecheta]

In the release notes for Dispatcher v4.3.3, it mentions an improvement:

• DISP-818 - mod_expires adds Cache-Control headers for uncacheable content

Does anyone know what this improvement actually does? We are trying to use the Apache mod_headers to add Cache-Control to certain responses, but it does not work if the request contains query parameters. If we remove the query parameters from the request, or we change the cache-control header to another header (like cache-control2) then it works.

https://docs.adobe.com/content/help/en/experience-manager-dispatcher/using/getting-started/release-n...

[Jörg_Hoh]

Actually the mod_expires always added headers to any response, even if this response was supposed to be uncacheable.

And technically (according to the RFCs) any request containing a query string must not be cached.

HTH,

Jörg

[cecheta]

Yes, we are trying to add cache-control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate so that the CDN does not cache the page, but the header is missing from the response when we try to set it using th

[rajput-ankur]

@Jörg_HohIn my case it is still not adding Cache-Control for uncacheable (denied in cache.any) request.

I have used

ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 month"

 But as soon as I add the entry to deny caching, the Cache-Control header gets removed from the final response.

[Jörg_Hoh]

Cache Control headers are different from Expiration headers, and IIRC they can co-exist do not influence each other.

[cecheta]

@Jörg_Hoh Yes, we are trying to add cache-control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate to the response so that the CDN does not cache the page, but the cache-control header is missing from the response when we try to set it using the Header directive.

[aemmarc · Accepted solution]

May want to log a ticket.

DISP-818 removed the Cache-Control header from requests with query parameters

BUT -- this introduced some unintended things which are currently being handled under the open JIRA GRANITE-29891