The current smaxage for Wikimedia wikis is 2678400 seconds (31 days). It should be reduced to 604800 seconds (7 days).
Thirty-one days is a very long time and makes implementing new site-wide CSS and JS much more tedious.
Version: unspecified
Severity: minor
A more permanent fix should be actually doing purges of the standard raw URLs for standard-pattern CSS/JS pages on edit...
The corollary there is having a sane max-age for client-side caching, though. Hrm...
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This will be superseded by the Resource Loader once it's deployed.
How so?
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(In reply to comment #2)
This will be superseded by the Resource Loader once it's deployed.
How so?
ResourceLoader uses timestamp parameters to work around caching when a resource changes; for resources where we can't generate timestamp parameters without having those timestamps themselves be cached (e.g. because they'd be embedded in HTML that's cached in Squid, like $wgStyleVersion currently), we set short (s-)maxages instead.
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This will be superseded by the Resource Loader once it's deployed.
FIXED per this