audreyfeldroy / favicon-cheat-sheet

Obsessive cheat sheet to favicon sizes/types. Please contribute! (Note: this may be in flux as I learn new things about favicon best practices.)
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Cache busting: query strings not 100% effective #15

Closed noahcollins closed 10 years ago

noahcollins commented 10 years ago

There are rare edge cases where query strings are stripped by proxies and load balancers. To be comprehensive, it's good to mention the safest method: putting the version number in the actual filename

Here's some good discussion with examples. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9692665/cache-busting-via-params