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High Performance Web Sites
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High Performance Web Sites

by Steve Souders
September 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
170 pages
4h 24m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Expires

Conditional GET requests and 304 responses help pages load faster, but they still require making a roundtrip between the client and server to perform the validity check. The Expires header eliminates the need to check with the server by making it clear whether the browser can use its cached copy of a component.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/x-javascript
Last-Modified: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 04:15:54 GMT
Expires: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 19:16:20 GMT

When the browser sees an Expires header in the response, it saves the expiration date with the component in its cache. As long as the component hasn't expired, the browser uses the cached version and avoids making any HTTP requests. Chapter 5 talks about the Expires and Cache-Control headers in more detail.

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