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+layout: post
+title: Why is browser caching so weird?
+date: 2020-05-17 18:02 +0200
+tags: jekyll, webdev
+categories: tech
+---
+
+I wondered for a while about this... Every time I added an entry to my blog, regenerated
+and reuploaded it... When I typed `blog.uvokchee.de` in my browser, it would open the old
+index.html. I had to manually refresh (Ctrl-R / F5, not even Ctrl-Shift-R to circumvent
+the cache) the page so it displayed the new entry. This confuses me utterly.
+
+Up until now, no headers were sent by the server except `ETags`. So... what is the default
+browser caching behavior? I'm glad about any input about that.
+
+For now, I added this to `.htaccess`, lets see if this helps. \*shrugs\*
+
+```
+<IfModule mod_expires.c>
+ExpiresActive on
+ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 week"
+ExpiresByType text/html "access plus 0 seconds"
+</IfModule>
+```