Can't get simple alias to work

Help
13

I think that question bears a little more looking into.

At the moment, I’m thinking it might be best just to include an example like this in the header documentation:

route {
  header Cache-Control max-age=3600
  header /static/* Cache-Control max-age=31536000
  header /favicon.ico Cache-Control max-age=31536000
}

And explain what the use case is for it.

This is an interesting case where the behaviour we’d usually expect to be ideal - that is, evaluating the more specific route first - is actually counterproductive for headers!

But it’s not feasible, I don’t think, to change Caddy to sort routes the opposite way around when path matchers that only have header handlers are in play. I can just imagine how hacky that’d be, and I can see edge cases galore…

So yeah, probably an update to the docs is at hand.

1 Like