Hosting a GWT Webapp in IIS

Question

I am currently trying to configure an ASP.net Web Application through Web.config, to host a GWT WebApp in a specific folder. I've managed to configure the mimeMap for the .manifest file extension in the system.Webserver/staticContent section however, i'm stuck with the clientCache. I want to add a caching rule so that files with ".nocache." are served with the following headers:

"Expires", "Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:12:02 GMT" (today -1);
"Pragma", "no-cache"
"Cache-control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"

Anyone knows how to do this within IIS 7+ ?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 17 '13 at 15:36

The file time stamp is automatically checked in IIS and the browser always requests the server for updated file based on the timestamp, so the .nocache. files don't need anything special in IIS.

However if you wanted the browser to cache the .cache. files then the following HttpModule sets the cache expiration date to 30 days from now for files that end in .cache.js or .cache.html (or any extension). The browser won't even request for updated versions of these files.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;

namespace CacheModulePlayground
{
    public class CacheModule : IHttpModule
    {
        private HttpApplication _context;


        public void Init(HttpApplication context)
        {
            _context = context;
            context.PreSendRequestHeaders += context_PreSendRequestHeaders;
        }

        void context_PreSendRequestHeaders(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

            if (_context.Response.StatusCode == 200 || _context.Response.StatusCode == 304)
            {
                var path = _context.Request.Path;

                var dotPos = path.LastIndexOf('.');
                if (dotPos > 5)
                {
                    var preExt = path.Substring(dotPos - 6, 7);
                    if (preExt == ".cache.")
                    {
                        _context.Response.Cache.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow.Add(TimeSpan.FromDays(30)));
                    }
                }

            }

        }


        public void Dispose()
        {
            _context = null;
        }
    }
}

The web.config for this is:

<configuration>
    <system.web>
      <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.5" />
      <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" />
    </system.web>
  <system.webServer>
    <modules>
      <add name="cacheExtension" type="CacheModulePlayground.CacheModule"/>
    </modules>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

I added the code and applied the changes to the web.config. In debugging I can see, that `SetExpires` is executed. Firefox shows "Expires" in Response headers as a date in far future. Do you have any idea, why Firefox is still not caching the html file? — slartidan, Feb 03 '15 at 11:14
PS: My fault: I using "Reload" to test caching, but "Reload" never uses caches. Now your solution works perfect for me. Thanks. — slartidan, Feb 03 '15 at 11:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 03 '15 at 11:19

Create an HTTP module class in GwtCacheHttpModuleImpl.cs file

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace YourNamespace
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Classe GwtCacheHttpModuleImpl
    /// 
    /// Permet de mettre en cache pour un an ou pas du tout les fichiers générés par GWT
    /// </summary>
    public class GwtCacheHttpModuleImpl : IHttpModule
    {

        private HttpApplication _context;

        private static String GWT_FILE_EXTENSIONS_REGEX_STRING = "\\.(js|html|png|bmp|jpg|gif|htm|css|ttf|svg|woff|txt)$";

        private static Regex GWT_CACHE_OR_NO_CACHE_FILE_REGEX = new Regex(".*\\.(no|)cache" + GWT_FILE_EXTENSIONS_REGEX_STRING);
        private static Regex GWT_CACHE_FILE_REGEX = new Regex(".*\\.cache" + GWT_FILE_EXTENSIONS_REGEX_STRING);

        #region IHttpModule Membres

        public void Dispose()
        {
            _context = null;
        }

        public void Init(HttpApplication context)
        {
            context.PreSendRequestHeaders += context_PreSendRequestHeaders;
            _context = context;
        }

        #endregion

        private void context_PreSendRequestHeaders(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            int responseStatusCode = _context.Response.StatusCode;

            switch (responseStatusCode)
            {
                case 200:
                case 304:
                    // Réponse gérée
                    break;
                default:
                    // Réponse non gérée
                    return;
            } /* end..switch */


            String requestPath = _context.Request.Path;

            if (!GWT_CACHE_OR_NO_CACHE_FILE_REGEX.IsMatch(requestPath))
            {
                // Fichier non géré
                return;
            }

            HttpCachePolicy cachePolicy = _context.Response.Cache;

            if (GWT_CACHE_FILE_REGEX.IsMatch(requestPath))
            {
                // Fichier à mettre en cache
                cachePolicy.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow.Add(TimeSpan.FromDays(365))); /* now plus 1 year */              
            }
            else
            {
                // Fichier à ne pas mettre en cache
                cachePolicy.SetExpires(DateTime.UtcNow); /* ExpiresDefault "now" */
                cachePolicy.SetMaxAge(TimeSpan.Zero); /* max-age=0 */
                cachePolicy.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.Public); /* Cache-Control public */
                cachePolicy.SetRevalidation(HttpCacheRevalidation.AllCaches); /* must-revalidate */
            }

        }
    }
}

Reference your HTTP module in Web.Config file :
Handle GWT file extention via ISAPI module

You should configure your application via IIS UI ( IIS 5.x and .NET 3.5 in my case ). You could add other GWT file extensions like png, css, ...

a) Handle .js extension

Executable : c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll

Extension : .js

Limit to : GET,HEAD

b) Handle .html extension

Executable : c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll

Extension : .html

Limit to : GET,HEAD

Reference : GWT Perfect Caching for Apache server

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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I ended up creating a custom httphandler to handle all the requests to the path .nocache. using a solution similar to the one described in here:

Prevent scripts from being cached programmatically

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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