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Asked: 2026-05-16T11:11:53+00:00

I’ve got an applet that is rather large (4MB) on a web page used

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I’ve got an applet that is rather large (4MB) on a web page used by a few thousand users scattered across a WAN. Bandwidths to these users range from a paltry 128Kbps to 10Mbps.

The problem occurs when a new version of the applet is made available; it is downloaded automatically by all the users browsers effectively chocking the network.

They really hate ‘release day’ morning around here 🙂

Is there any strategy to work around this problem?

Edit: I can only serve this applet centrally from one pair of servers. I cannot make any modifications to the hosting or network infrastructure.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you can put a .htaccess in the directory you can add expiresByType so that the client doesn’t ask the server everytime.

    Have you looked at pack200? and (pack200 + .htaccess)
    Have you looked at indexed Jar?

    Anthony

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