The Plugin doesn’t change my cache headers

Resolved danescobar
(@danescobar)

8 years, 11 months ago

Hi,

I installed your plugin and it seem it can be conflicting with one or more plugins in my config because it doesn’t change headers.

I set:
Access-Control-Max-Age 5184000

To solve the leverage browser issue in Google Pagespeed but in the results it notifies the headers haven’t changed.

I suspect the culprit could be an incompatibility with WP Super Cache, Autoptimize or Above the Fold Optimization but in reality I have no idea of why the headers don’t change.

Hope is an easy to fix issue because cache headers is what is reducing my pagespeed score the most. Thanks for the work you’re doing with this plugin Dimitar.

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Optimizing Matters
(@optimizingmatters)

8 years, 11 months ago

autoptimize has a .htaccess-file in wp-content/cache/autoptimize/ and it is configured in such a way it only affects the autoptimized CSS/JS files.

now based on the description of http headers, it is not designed to set HTTP-headers (expiry & cache-control) for images, but to inject HTTP headers for wordpress pages/ posts/ .., so it might be you need to look of an alternative solution?

Thread Starter danescobar
(@danescobar)

8 years, 11 months ago

Thanks, I solved most of the cache headers by modifying htaccess directly. Also I want to report a bug, I had to deactivate this plugin because it breaks theme customization and media image display possibly because of a conflict with an existing plugin. This plugin needs a lot of optimization and compatibility work.

Plugin Author Dimitar Ivanov
(@zinoui)

8 years, 11 months ago

This plugin does not modify the cache headers of HTML documents neither their static resources. I guess you need to find some other solution.

The main goal of this plugin is to help with securing of websites and to solve some common issues with Same-origin policy.

cjc1867
(@cjc1867)

8 years, 11 months ago

Hi
I have the same issue with WP Super Cache, you have to delete the cache all the time before the headers change.

Caching shouldn’t have anything to do with the headers so why is this happening?

Is it this plugin or WP Super Cache?

When I test my headers with different scanners I keep getting different results despite them being set up in your plugin.

How can we solve this problem?

Cheers

Colin

Plugin Author Dimitar Ivanov
(@zinoui)

8 years, 11 months ago

Hi @cjc1867,

The problem with WP Super Cache is solved since v1.4.0 of Http Headers. You must use the Apache/htaccess method (see the Advanced settings)

cjc1867
(@cjc1867)

8 years, 11 months ago

Hi Dimitar
It appears that caching plugins just cache the content and nothing else so web security is not considered. Shame on them….

I have just started to add the settings to the .htaccess file after finding information on how to do it then enabled the cache and yes started to work again.

But then without knowing your fixed, updated and solved the problem all round.

Thank you for doing this as not everyone is technically minded and wouldn’t want to play with the .htaccess file as it can cause problems with your website. This will be easy now to implement web security and have cache enabled.

Cheers

Colin