HTTPServer cache control directive

[Budric]

Hi,
first let me complement the developers of this library. Very clean design and I like the coding style (eg. names compared to some of the things from Boost). I hope this library grows.

My question is as follows: I have implemented an HTTP server based on the example. When a request for an image comes in, I read in the image file and stream it to the user. Here's the bit of code:

response.setChunkedTransferEncoding(true);
std::string contentType("image/");
contentType.append(fileType);
response.setContentType(contentType);
response.send().write((char *)blob.data(), blob.length());

For some reason the client browsers do not cache the images. I read in the specification about HTTP caching directives and I was wondering how those extra headers can be set in the response so the client caches the image. I looked over the API docs but no luck finding it.

Thanks

[Budric]

P.S.
I know about sendFile() method. I do some image manupulation and need to send the blob (bytes). Just want to know how to access the response header and add some more stuff to it.

[alex]

> For some reason the client browsers do not cache the images. I read in the specification about HTTP caching directives and I was wondering how those extra headers can be set in the response so the client caches the image. I looked over the API docs but no luck finding it.

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response.add("Cache-Control: ", "max-age=86400");


Alternative is via html meta tags:

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<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:21:57 GMT" > )


Alex

PS: I recall reading somewhere that IE cheats on this particular issue by ignoring cache directives in order to pump up the statistics for browser usage.

[alex]

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> <meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:21:57 GMT" > )


Sorry, I meant "expires":

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<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Wed, 22 Aug 2007 08:21:57 GMT" > )