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Help on setting of Response Headers on A5V11

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    Help on setting of Response Headers on A5V11

    Currently my response headers look like this:


    Response Headers:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Last-Modified: Sat, 05 May 2012 01:19:50 GMT
    Accept-Ranges: none
    Server: Alpha Five Application Server/11.0 Build/2549-3903
    Content-Type: image/jpeg
    Set-Cookie: A5WSessionId=c63ed3622b32405f8ee6251631e12a10; HttpOnly; path=/
    Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
    Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 22:14:10 GMT
    Expires: Mon, 07 May 2012 22:14:10 GMT
    Cache-Control: max-age=600
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block


    I need to change the Expires and Cache-Control values to enable caching of static images.
    I know I can set the values for the A5W files with Response.Headers.Set, but how do I do it for JPG files?

    Seems this must be done on some server settings, but where/which are they?

    I would appreciate any help.
    Thank you.
    Rich
    Richard
    --------------------------------------------------------
    Find the Good and Praise It
    Alex Haley

    #2
    Re: Help on setting of Response Headers on A5V11

    The Cache-Control and Expires headers are not being set by the Application Server, which provides no way to do so. I see you have Google Web Accelerator in the mix, which is probably added those headers. You should look there for control over the values being used.

    Originally posted by richatal5soft View Post
    Currently my response headers look like this:


    Response Headers:

    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Last-Modified: Sat, 05 May 2012 01:19:50 GMT
    Accept-Ranges: none
    Server: Alpha Five Application Server/11.0 Build/2549-3903
    Content-Type: image/jpeg
    Set-Cookie: A5WSessionId=c63ed3622b32405f8ee6251631e12a10; HttpOnly; path=/
    Via: HTTP/1.1 GWA
    Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 22:14:10 GMT
    Expires: Mon, 07 May 2012 22:14:10 GMT
    Cache-Control: max-age=600
    Transfer-Encoding: chunked
    X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block


    I need to change the Expires and Cache-Control values to enable caching of static images.
    I know I can set the values for the A5W files with Response.Headers.Set, but how do I do it for JPG files?

    Seems this must be done on some server settings, but where/which are they?

    I would appreciate any help.
    Thank you.
    Rich

    Lenny Forziati
    Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
    Alpha Software Corporation

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      #3
      Re: Help on setting of Response Headers on A5V11

      Thank you for the reply.

      I'm doing performance testing using http://www.webpagetest.org and those headers came from them.

      Using web-sniffer.net I get this:

      Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK
      Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:05:40 GMT
      Connection: Close
      Accept-Ranges: none
      Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 20:46:50 GMT
      Server: Alpha Five/11.0 Build/2549-3903
      Content-Length: 40718
      Content-Type: image/jpeg
      Set-Cookie: A5WSessionId=dd29c479652940578584da1dc7428981; HttpOnly; path=/


      the Application Server, which provides no way to do so.
      Does this mean A5V11 Application Server has no way of setting response headers for Content-Type: image/jpeg?
      If so do you know of any other way in combination with the App server?

      Our application has many static images which are loaded in a looping paged image slider.
      Caching them would make a huge difference in terms of performance and traffic.

      Apache has the module 'mod_expires'. Any plans for A5 to "add" something similar?


      Rich
      Richard
      --------------------------------------------------------
      Find the Good and Praise It
      Alex Haley

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        #4
        Re: Help on setting of Response Headers on A5V11

        Originally posted by richatal5soft View Post
        Does this mean A5V11 Application Server has no way of setting response headers for Content-Type: image/jpeg?
        If so do you know of any other way in combination with the App server?

        Our application has many static images which are loaded in a looping paged image slider.
        Caching them would make a huge difference in terms of performance and traffic.

        Apache has the module 'mod_expires'. Any plans for A5 to "add" something similar?
        That's correct, you cannot set Response headers on purely static resources. We are not planning to add this functionality directly to the Application Server, as this will be available when running under IIS with our future integration.

        Until then, a couple of options come to mind: use an A5W page to serve the resources, or use a different server (IIS/Apache) to serve static resources.

        To server images using an A5W page, change you links to something like image.a5w?ImageName=image1.jpg. Then create image.5aw with something like
        Code:
        <%a5
        Response.Expire("30 days")
        Response.Headers.Set("CacheControl","max-age=9999")
        Response.SendFile(Request.ApplicationRoot + "\images\\" + ImageName)
        %>
        Using a different server, with a distinct host name, has several application performance advantages as well. In addition to freeing up the Application Server to concentrate on dynamic requests, it enables browsers to download more resources in parallel.

        Lenny Forziati
        Vice President, Internet Products and Technical Services
        Alpha Software Corporation

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          #5
          Re: Help on setting of Response Headers on A5V11

          Thanks again. Those are great tips.

          We had thought of the A5V11/ IIS integration (were actually about to ask ZH about it), but we did not know it was not yet available.
          Using a different host will be our current choice, eventually going to a CDN.

          Many thanks.
          Richard
          --------------------------------------------------------
          Find the Good and Praise It
          Alex Haley

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