From e20538715d3daf0e11ab1482abda2d0063833c99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?C=C4=83t=C4=83lin=20Mari=C8=99?= <alrraa@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 22:17:46 +0200
Subject: bin: Make `httpcompression` prevent caching

In some cases, intermediate proxies ignore the `Content-Encoding` header
altogether.

Sending `Cache-Control no-cache` as a request header solves this problem
by forcing validation of the resources in the intermediate proxies,
thereby, ensuring that every request is fetched from the origin server.

Ref. alrra/dotfiles#2. Closes #308.
---
 bin/httpcompression | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'bin/httpcompression')

diff --git a/bin/httpcompression b/bin/httpcompression
index 444f719..9f5163c 100755
--- a/bin/httpcompression
+++ b/bin/httpcompression
@@ -2,8 +2,21 @@
 
 # Test if HTTP compression (RFC 2616 + SDCH) is enabled for a given URL
 
-declare -r hUA="Mozilla/5.0 Gecko"
+# Useful Links:
+#
+# - HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616) - Content Codings:
+#   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-3.5
+#
+# - SDCH Specification:
+#   http://www.blogs.zeenor.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Shared_Dictionary_Compression_over_HTTP.pdf
+
+# Usage:
+#
+#   httpcompression URL
+
 declare -r hAE="Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch"
+declare -r hCC="Cache-Control: no-cache"
+declare -r hUA="Mozilla/5.0 Gecko"
 declare -r maxConTime=15
 declare -r maxTime=30
 
@@ -11,13 +24,14 @@ declare availDicts="" dict="" dictClientID="" dicts="" headers="" i="" \
         indent="" url="" encoding="" urlHeaders=""
 
 headers="$( curl --connect-timeout $maxConTime \
-                 -A "$hUA"    `# Send a fake UA string for sites
-                               # that sniff it instead of using
-                               # the Accept-Encoding header` \
+                 -A "$hUA"    `# Send a fake UA string for sites that sniff it
+                               # instead of using the Accept-Encoding header` \
                  -D -         `# Get response headers` \
                  -H "$hAE"     \
-                 -L           `# If the page was moved to a different
-                               # location, redo the request` \
+                 -H "$hCC"    `# Prevent intermediate proxies from caching the
+                               # response` \
+                 -L           `# If the page was moved to a different location,
+                               # redo the request` \
                  -m $maxTime   \
                  -s           `# Don\'t show the progress meter` \
                  -S           `# Show error messages` \
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