If I have some site on a server:
//hello.html
<html> hello </html>
Would all of the following be requested and/or cached individually:
http://hello.html
, http://hello.html?place=world
, http://hello.html?foo=bar
...even though they are the same result?
Is there some variable in the header that denotes the difference between a static (always the same) response to a request and one which has had some meddling (ie. PHP, templates)?
EDIT: if the site was (I don't know PHP):
<html><?php
print "hello"+$_GET['place'];;
?></html>
the results would be different for the three urls:
http://hello.html
, http://hello.html?place=world
, http://hello.html?foo=bar
Is the response header also changed to express that for all three the page is not static (not cacheable)?
This answer is based off of a comment by @CharlotteDunois. If he adds an answer, I'll take this one down.
There is no implicit difference between the header of a dynamic vs static response.
There does exist a header setting called Cache-Control
which can tell a browser that something that does not look static actually is.
If doing I'm the one doing the web service, I can set the header to have Cache-Control
, but I can not depend on other servers to always do the same.