django-cache-headers 0.1.3

Configurable middleware to add HTTP caching headers for URL's.

Django Cache Headers

Overview

Django Cache Headers allows you to set HTTP caching headers for URL patterns according to certain policies. It does not perform any caching itself - it merely sets the headers on the response which are then interpreted by eg. Nginx.

Installation

1. Install or add django-cache-headers to your Python path.

2. Add cache_headers to your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

3. Add cache_headers.middleware.CacheHeadersMiddleware before SessionMiddleware and AuthenticationMiddleware to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting.

Policies

Django Cache Headers provides four caching policies. You may define your own policies.:

1. all-users - response is marked as cached once for all users.

2. anonymous-only - response is marked as cached once only for anonymous users.

3. anonymous-and-authenticated - response is marked as cached once for anonymous users and once for authenticated users.

4. per-user - response is marked as cached once for anonymous users and for each authenticated user individually.

Settings

The timeouts key combines the policy, timeout in seconds and URL regexes in a nested dictionary:

CACHE_HEADERS = {
    "timeouts": {
        "all-users": {
            60: (
                "^/all-users/",
            )
        },
        "anonymous-only": {
            60: (
                "^/anonymous-only/",
            )
        },
        "anonymous-and-authenticated": {
            60: (
                "^/anonymous-and-authenticated/",
            )
        },
        "per-user": {
            60: (
                "^/per-user/",
            )
        },
        "custom-policy": {
            60: (
                "^/custom-policy/",
            )
        }
    }
}

Authors

Praekelt Consulting

• Hedley Roos

Changelog

0.1.3

1. Handle case where user may also be logged in and a cookie not being set.

0.1.2

1. Use the s-maxage header for compatability with Varnish.

0.1.1

1. Leave response untouched if status code is not 200.

0.1

1. Initial release.