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Re:Google Fonts Redesigned by xaduha on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @03:02PM (#11904444)
> They do provide proper cache headers. They cache the CSS for 1 day. The actual font files are cached for a lot longer than that.

I don't see it, not with curl at least.

Looks like actual fonts are cached for a year.

But not CSS,

> curl https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans -i

expires:Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:02:03 GMT

date:Tue, 14 Jun 2016 19:02:03 GMT

At the very least they should allow to control that with another query parameter.

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Re:Google Fonts Redesigned by row1an on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @11:43PM (#11907063)
Expires is a HTTP/1.0 header, Cache-Control is HTTP/1.1 and used by anything created in the last 10-15 years. Most sites set the Expires header similar to their Cache-Control max-age, but I guess Google just doesn't care and it doesn't really matter anyway.
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Re:Google Fonts Redesigned by xaduha on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @06:42AM (#11908393)
You might be right, but what I see in the browser dev tools is that my page always gets the CSS from Google Fonts and that does matter to me.
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Re:Google Fonts Redesigned by row1an on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @10:27PM (#11913543)
It loads from the cache in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE, and Edge for me.
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