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Asking browsers to cache as aggressively as possible

This is about a web app that serves images. Since the same request will always return the same image, I want the accessing browsers to cache the images as aggressively as possible. I pretty much want to tell the browser

Here's your image. Go ahead and keep it; it's really not going to change for the next couple of days. No need to come back. Really. I promise.

I do, so far, set 

Cache-Control: public, max-age=86400
Last-Modified: (some time ago)
Expires: (two days from now)

and of course return a 304 not modified if the request has the appropriate If-Modified-Since header.

Is there anything else I can do (or anything I should do differently) to get my message across to the browsers?

The app is hosted on the Google App Engine, in case that matters.

Solution

  • You may be interested in checking out the following Google Code article:

    In a nutshell, all modern browsers should be able to cache your images appropriately as instructed, with those HTTP headers.