[PLUG] CSS file name curiosity

[Bill Ensley]

I have used similar tactics in the past adding a random date-time string to 
a dynamic css file name
to prevent browser caching.

As both browsers give you the same file name, that may not be what is going 
on here, but perhaps
this site runs on some platform hosting many other similar sites and that is 
this sites ID number?

-Bill Ensley
www.bearprinting.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Rasmussen" <michael at jamhome.us>
To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 10:20 AM
Subject: [PLUG] CSS file name curiosity


>I was viewing the source to a web page I retrieved and saw
> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" 
> href="/sites/default/files/css/04b371acb6269192bb0f071989867540.css"
> />
>
> Hmmmh?   That's a strange name for a css file.   When I open another 
> browser I see:
> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" 
> href="/sites/default/files/css/04b371acb6269192bb0f071989867540.css"
> />
>
> Same thing, BTW the browsers were Konqueror and Firefox.  My cookies from 
> the site don't contain that string.  The
> Firefox cookies do include a session ID.
>
> I'm thinking the 04b371acb6269192bb0f071989867540.css is a link to some 
> regular file name like non-ie-browsers.css or
> perhaps it's an auto-generated css based on a mix of parameters.  But why, 
> as in what's the point?
>
> Ideas?
>
> The site is http://www.mercycorps.org/ and I suspect it is Drupal driven.
>
> -- 
>      Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
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