Github pages, HTTP headers

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I serve some of my files from my Github pages account. But when I check my "js" files' headers, I saw following:

Last-Modified:Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:00:46 GMT 
Expires:Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:13:23 GMT
Cache-Control:max-age=600

This file was commited 14 days ago. But I don't plan these files so frequent. So I need to make much bigger max-age value and change Last-Modified value to last commited date.

Is it possible to change headers of Github pages?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12556593/determining-a-page-is-outdated-on-github-pages http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3956455/html-5-cache-manifest-vs-etags-expires-or-cache-control-header/ — trante, Feb 17 '13 at 18:22

score 66 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '13 at 20:57

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I asked this to Github admins, and they told me that "it is not possible" to change headers. They added this issue to wishlist.

answered Feb 27 '13 at 20:57

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Still not possible. Github doesn't want to add possibility to modify Github Pages HTTP headers. The current only workaround is to use HTML `meta` tags. – Binyamin Mar 13 '18 at 18:27

score 19 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 25 '18 at 01:59

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The answer is no, however we can stimulate html header on html pages using <meta http-equiv> tag.

<meta http-equiv="last-modified" content="Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:00:46 GMT " />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="Private" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="600" />

You can embed these snippets into the HTML page.

edited Dec 25 '18 at 01:59

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answered Aug 02 '15 at 12:10

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Well this approach is ok for html files. But I need my js file to have last modified header. – trante Aug 02 '15 at 14:02
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Till now (4/8/2015) still impossible. – tamyiuchau Aug 03 '15 at 16:40
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You might want to use Service Workers on your page as a workaround (either with manual caching inside of SW or by just modifying response headers). – RReverser Feb 25 '16 at 11:57
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and answer is: Don't use Github pages! – Norbert Norbertson Jan 30 '17 at 12:20

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 25 '18 at 12:44

This is for all the people still having this problem and coming here from google.

Had the same problem recently. Actually it is possible if you are stubborn enough and wish to use some extra, third party services. What you need to do, is to use free tier heroku app with custom nginx buildpack. This buildpack would work as a proxy pass, which can add/remove HTTP headers as you please.

You will lose GitHub CDN though, so it may be good idea to leverage another service - cloudflare to do just that (and SSL as a bonus).

I wrote an article with detailed setup how to do this, if somebody is intereseted: https://www.rzegocki.pl/blog/custom-http-headers-with-github-pages/ - the setup is pretty cumbersome but it works.

Howdy · Answer 4 · 2019-06-18T16:09:45.607

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It's currently not possible in Github Pages. You can use Github with Netlify. They let you change headers. They also have nice features like forms, prerendering and more. Which all are missing in Github Pages.

edited Jun 18 '19 at 16:09

answered Nov 22 '18 at 03:26

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Comparative Breakdown of GitHub Pages vs. Netlify - [www.netlify.com/github-pages-vs-netlify](https://www.netlify.com/github-pages-vs-netlify/) – Alex Klaus May 24 '19 at 05:43

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