Hi

We use few .xml and .xsl files in our web application and we found that
these files even though fairly static gets downloaded to the client's
machine everytime the page is refreshed.

Is there a way we can instruct so that these files only gets downloaded to
the client's machine if there is an update to these files.

Please help
Rahul

Yes, you can set the page expiration settings in IIS to the default values,
or tell the browser to cache them for 4 hours, 1 day, etc. Note that if a
user refreshes a page their browser may download those files anyway.

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"Rahul Agarwal" <agarwal_rahul (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hi Ben

Can you please give some more details as how I can instruct the browser to
cache this files, can this be done via coding? Any coding e.g. would be very
helpful or any links.

thanks
Rahul

"Ben Strackany" <infoNOSPAM (AT) developmentnow (DOT) nospam.com> wrote

If these are ASPX pages that progamattically generate XML, you can use the
outputcache or Response.Cache features to tell browsers to cache the
information.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...lityofpage.asp

If these are actual XML & XSL files sitting on your web server, you'll have
to open IIS Manager, navigate to those files, right-click, go to properties,
switch to HTTP Headers, & use the "Enable Content Expiration" section
appropriately. It's possible that this section is set to "Expire
Immediately" which will cause users to download the pages every time. You
can uncheck "Enable Content Expiration" so that browsers will only download
the files if they change, or check "Enable Content Expiration" & set a
specific expiration value.

Best regards,

Ben Strackany
www.developmentnow.com

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"Rahul Agarwal" <agarwal_rahul (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote