: Another way to force non-caching This is the HTTP header I typically use to ensure that an image is not cached. And the reason why I do this to a select few images is because I have an

@Candy875

Here's my entire htaccess from a site, works well on various browsers though didn't test it extensively however it satisfies pagespeed ;-)

You'd just have to edit the parts necessary for you and put in file types for the time spans.

And perhaps it is more than you require but based on the last part of your question:


but at the rate that technology is advancing....


Thought it may be useful for you and others.

# 1 YEAR
<FilesMatch ".(flv|ico|pdf|avi|mov|ppt|doc|mp3|wmv|wav)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=29030400, public"
</FilesMatch>

# 1 WEEK
<FilesMatch ".(jpg|jpeg|png|gif|swf)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800, public"
</FilesMatch>

# 1 week
<FilesMatch ".(txt|xml|js|css)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=604800"
</FilesMatch>

# NEVER CACHE
<FilesMatch ".(html|htm|php|cgi|pl)$">
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, private, no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"
</FilesMatch>

SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/css
text/plain text/xml text/javascript application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch bMSI[E] !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI .(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary


Here's where parts of this came from. askapache.

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