Hi Noel, People often want static content cached -- it reduces the load on your app. Also, there might be other intermediate caches to worry about too, so it may not be only Google caching your content.
Yes, you should use some type of cache busting strategy. It depends on how your iPhone app is implemented, but perhaps you can use a version number on your assets so they can be changed between versions? Robert On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:57, Noel <llo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just pushed an update to my app in which a bunch of the static files > changed and were important for the app behavior. > > What I'm seeing is that any requests for those static files return an > old version of the file! I did some digging around and it seems that > other people are seeing this and GAE caches things very aggressively. > > Two things: > - Unless I'm missing something GAE shouldn't do that. When I submit > changes with appcfg.py update, it knows exactly what has changed, so > there's no reason it can't invalidate the caches for the static files > that have changed. > - Is there a way I can force it from here to start serving the latest > version of a static file? I can't change the app because it's an > iPhone app. > > Is it true that in the future, the best way to avoid this might be > something like adding ?timestamp=[hour] to the URL request? That way > files won't be cached for more than an hour? Is there a better method? > > Thanks. > > > --Noel > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
