caching issue: static CSS is load thorugh load.php and therefore uncacheable

[adrelanos]

Setup

• Browsers and versions: firefox-esr 68.8.0esr-1~deb10u1
• MediaWiki version: 1.34.1
• Database version:
• PHP version:
• Foreground version: 2.3.0

Issue

gtmetrix.com, google pagespeed and other website speedtest / caching test websites complain that the following resources do not have a long expiration date / aren't cacheable:

• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.flaggedRevs.review&skin=foreground&version=18tly
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=ext.purge&skin=foreground&version=3sx9r
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery.client&skin=foreground&version=1d1dj
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery&skin=foreground&version=1xgm5
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery.getAttrs&skin=foreground&version=1p30m
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery.highlightText&skin=foreground&version=1mh8h
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery.makeCollapsible&skin=foreground&version=rscou
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=jquery.suggestions&skin=foreground&version=1ucip
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.String&skin=foreground&version=1bidf
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.base&skin=foreground&version=m9box
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.cldr&skin=foreground&version=laa59
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.libs.pluralruleparser&skin=foreground&version=ckbfi
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.page.startup&skin=foreground&version=5umqm
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.Title&skin=foreground&version=sx80d
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.searchSuggest&skin=foreground&version=1ecdy
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.storage&skin=foreground&version=1dq8q
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=mediawiki.api&skin=foreground&version=6hk5g
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=site&skin=foreground&version=6dr8h
• /w/load.php?lang=en&modules=skins.foreground.modernizr&skin=foreground&version=aptx3

This is because these are fetched through load.php. That's probably the reason that these aren't links to .css or .js files.

These files look fairly stable.

Is this a mediawiki load.php issue or a foreground skin specific issue?

[JasonJAyalaP]

It's the js, not the css.

As far as I can tell, normal wikimedia behavior is to send a request to load.php like this:

load.php?[...]modulename.namespace.tool,tool2,tool3|differentmodule.tool,tool2

Which replies with a concatenated css/js of all thoses requested modules. But somehow for whonix wiki using foreground, our html is making individual requests:

load.php?[...]modulename.namespace.tool
load.php?[...]modulename.namespace.tool2
load.php?[...]modulename.namespace.tool3
load.php?[...]differentmodule.tool

[JasonJAyalaP]

Notes: Looking at the Githubissues.

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