Dealing With Caching

[TurekBot]

Love your project! Thanks for all the effort you've put into it so far.

I was giving Suri with GitHub Pages a try when I noticed that if I change a link's URL (and then it builds and redeploys) that the short URL still goes to the old page. I'm hoping to find a way (or contribute a pull request) that lets you avoid this.

I tried the default as well as with JS redirects on, but both seem to be cached for that browser.

I'm relatively new to redirects in general, but it looks like we might be able to control it by adding a meta element that uses the cache-control header, something like

<META HTTP-EQUIV="cache-control" CONTENT="no-cache">

Do you have any advice on caching in the scenario where a short link's destination may change?

Thanks!

[jstayton]

Hey Bradley – Ah, that's interesting. According to this, GitHub Pages caches everything for 10 minutes without any ability to change it.

I've never used that <meta> element myself, but it seems like it would do the trick. Did you manually try adding that to see if it worked?