[Koha-bugs] [Bug 12904] Force browser to load new JavaScript and CSS files after upgrade

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12904

--- Comment #114 from Marcel de Rooy <m.de.rooy at rijksmuseum.nl> ---
(In reply to Jonathan Druart from comment #113)
> Could anyone explain (again) why we choose to append the version to the
> filename and not in parameter?
> 
> So basically why:
>   /my/file_[% KOHA_VERSION %].js
> and not:
>   /my/file.js?version=[%  KOHA_VERSION %]
> 
> Kyle and Martin talked about the two approaches earlier in comments (from
> comment 4) but I do not understand. Please clarify.
> 
> It could avoid the rewrite rules.

>From one of the linked sources:
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But which is better: mylogo.1.2.gif or mylogo.gif?v=1.2? To gain the benefit of
caching by popular proxies, avoid revving with a querystring and instead rev
the filename itself.
===
I am not sure if passing a version as parameter in a script URL would be good
practice. It seems quite uncommon, but I may be wrong?

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