Turned up this old document about HTTP Caching in Mozilla.
Category Archives: Internet
HTTP cache control headers
I had to do two things today. One was to make sure that in production all of my resources were cached. The other was to make sure that in development none of my resources were cached. I ended up with these two functions, which seem to be doing the trick to disable/enable caching:
function set_nocache() {
header("Expires: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 06:00:00 GMT");
header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT");
header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0");
header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);
header("Pragma: no-cache");
}
function set_cache() {
header('Expires: ' . gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s', time()+31536000 ) . ' GMT');
header('Cache-Control: max-age=31536000');
}
Reference: Completely disable any browser caching.
PHP mail
I used the PHP mail function for the first time today. I had to configure the SMTP setting for my mail server in my php.ini file and after that it worked fine. Still only sending plain text email, and I’m not sure that I can for HTML email. :P
HTML5 Boilerplate
I learned about the HTML5 Boilerplate library today. It’s a template for creating a HTML5 website.
Get The Email Addresses Of All Your Facebook Friends!
I was trying to write a facebook app that grabbed the email address of all of my friends, but it turns out permission isn’t granted in the facebook api to do that. If you’re looking for another way to do this check out this video.
How To: Create a Self-signed SSL Certificate for IIS6
Working through a howto about How To: Create a Self-signed SSL Certificate for IIS6, which hopefully works on Windows XP!
Facebook Graph API
Learning about the User in the Facebook Graph API. One disappointing thing I learned today is that you can’t automatically download the email addresses of your friends via a facebook app.
Raphaël—JavaScript Library
Learning about the Raphaël—JavaScript Library. This can be used to do animations and drawing in HTML documents.
Facebook App Development
I’m getting interested in Facebook App development and have found a few things to read:
Adding an app/page to a Facebook Page
I found this article which said to add a page/app to a Facebook Page you need to hit this URL with your two parameters:
https://www.facebook.com/dialog/pagetab?app_id=YOUR_APP_ID &display=popup&next=YOUR_URL
Update: I was trying to add an ‘app’ rather than a ‘page tab’ and it turned out I needed this:
https://www.facebook.com/add.php?api_key=YOUR_APP_ID&pages