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IIS Web.Config Boilerplates
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Dead wiki link in all sample web.configs #15

Closed gellmaster closed 9 years ago

gellmaster commented 9 years ago

In all sample web.configs, in the Cachebusting section, there is a link that leads to a nonexistent wiki page.

To understand why this is important and a better idea than all.css?v1231, read: github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/wiki/Version-Control-with-Cachebusting

There is a "cachebusting" link in the pages navigation but that links to other documentation and I have yet to find the content I'm supposed to read.

Please update the link and consider updating the content on the wiki page to point more specifically to where the actual information is or additionally include an executive summary plus the link to the external information.

Thanks for all your work on this excellent project!

ChrisMcKee commented 9 years ago

Hi, Sorry about that, I didn't twig that the core project had removed the wiki (https://github.com/h5bp/server-configs) when they were all split into seperate repo's to keep the issues list maintainable.

In reality the rewrite cache buster is only useful if you're using IIS but not using .net; ideally in .net you'd use the built in bundler, or something similar like getcassette.net all of which will automatically change the filename (cache breaking) based on changes to the underlying files.

If you're still interested in the wiki article (which ill end up swapping the links out) it used to justify not using the querystring style version of cache breaking. In short, some major proxies like Squid don't cache files with querystrings (as it appears dynamic); theres a longer article here http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/08/23/revving-filenames-dont-use-querystring/

Ta

Chris

gellmaster commented 9 years ago

I agree, I'd love to be using a bundler, but unfortunately our terrible CMS does not have one and to top it off it's classic asp.

No real rush, just wanted to make you aware of the bad link. Thanks again!

ChrisMcKee commented 9 years ago

Classic ASP... eek burn it, burn it with fire