Chrome refuses to cache Javascript
I had the same issue with chrome and after some hours of trial and error I figuered out, that chrome seems to have a problem with the Vary Header
I've got this snippet in my Apache / .htaccess config and as soon as I comment the line "Header append Vary Accept-Encoding" Chrome starts caching .js and .css files
<FilesMatch "(\.js\.gz|\.css\.gz)$"> # Serve correct encoding type. Header set Content-Encoding gzip # Force proxies to cache gzipped & non-gzipped css/js files separately. #Header append Vary Accept-Encoding</FilesMatch>
It still does not work while running the request via our nignx server, because it is adding the Vary: Accept-Encoding header too, when delivering gzip compressed.
So far I can guess this is a problem that only happens with chrome and as a workaround I would change the configuration to append the header only if chrome (haven't checked for safari) is not the client until there is a better fix:
<FilesMatch "(\.js\.gz|\.css\.gz)$"> # Serve correct encoding type. Header set Content-Encoding gzip # Force proxies to cache gzipped & non-gzipped css/js files separately. BrowserMatch "Chrome" ChromeFound Header append Vary Accept-Encoding env=!ChromeFound</FilesMatch>