can't cache javascript file from proxy

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 07:12:21AM -0400, bugster86 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a problem with cache javascript file from a proxy glassfish4.0
> Server.

[...]

>                         proxy_ignore_headers "Cache-Control";
>                         #proxy_ignore_headers "Pragma";

[...]

> With a browser, I open a web page http://r60:81/site and I see all the
> content of the page.
> This is OK but I don't view anything in /tmp/nginx/cache  (no  cache files
> )
> 
> My web request download 3 javascript file.
> I expect it to be cached.
> 
> Why proxy_ignore_headers "Cache-Control" doesn't work properly?

There are other headers in addition to Cache-Control which may 
prevent caching of a response by nginx.  Most notably, Expires and 
Set-Cookie.  Check if the response contains them to see if it's 
the case.

See http://nginx.org/r/proxy_ignore_headers for a full list.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/