[opencms-dev] URL fingerprinting

[Stephan Schrader]

Hey,

we used to simply override the Link-Tag and append the date modified as
query parameter. This way opencms will generate an unique URL for every
published version.

But this would be a nice feature to have in general ;)

Stephan


2014-04-11 16:23 GMT+02:00 Paul-Inge Flakstad <flakstad at npolar.no>:

> Hi,
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> Has anyone considered URL fingerprinting in OpenCms?
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> I'm Curious because I'm thinking about modifying the export/link handler
> (?) to manage this. Since it's already doing some modification to the URLs,
> it should be possible to extend that some more - right ..?
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> What I have in mind is adding the fingerprint when exporting (similarly to
> how /opencms/export/ is injected).
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> E.g. if the VFS resource's offline URL is
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> /static/my.css
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> the online URL would become
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> /opencms/export/static/my-32819023810832091.css
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> when requested online.
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> Same for images, javascript and whatnot.
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> With fingerprinting in place, one could set the appropriate headers in
> Apache (or whatever's in front) and ta-daaaa pages would load (possibly a
> lot) faster, because many resources would be cached client-side.
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> Would sure like to hear your thoughts on this, if you have any.
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> (Don't know about URL fingerprinting? Then you should read this:
> https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/LeverageBrowserCaching)
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> Cheers,
>
> Paul
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