If you have cached content, using expires is a very good thing to do. It depends on your architecture and needs. Here are posts from two differing camps: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html#expires http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000932.html Hope this helps @msacks On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Tony Anecito <adanecito@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is using expires a good thing via Apache? It is recommended by someone in my company as a best practice but seems as if there are probably pros and cons to it. > > Regards, > -Tony > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx