On 02/04/2013 08:23 PM, Jesse Nicholson wrote:
> I'm wondering if there is some way that CURL does local caching of HTTP content? I'm developing an app that fetches up small html files and my server is giving
> them to CURL through Amazon CloudFront. I had no issue till today, when I realized that my server wasn't passing along the following in the headers:
>
> rep.headers[2].name = "Cache-Control";
> rep.headers[2].value = "max-age=86400";
>
> I added these headers today, recompiled my server application and Amazon finally started caching, for the first time (duh, pretty dumb bug). Anyway now that
> this is being passed in the headers, it would seem that CURL has learned to cache the objects locally somehow as well. I cannot find any documentation talking
> about this even being possible, so I'm starting to wonder if I'm going crazy. To give a little more nfo, I told amazon to flush the cache on a particular html
> file. I confirmed that the new content is coming through on every single browser on my computer. However, when I log the output from CURL, it's still loading
> the old cached data. I have no idea what in the heck is happening... and any insight would be greatly appreciate. Thanks,

Sniff traffic to see if the url requests are really going over the network. If they are, then
curl isn't caching..but something else outside your machine might be.

Ben

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Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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