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Hello all,

I am using the ruby gem AWS::S3 to generate expiring urls for my assets on S3, some of them are quicktime movies of size. I would prefer them not repeatedly downloaded each time requested to the client's browser. Since they are protected and whose access is done in authenticated urls, I set the expiration usually in 3 months, so I thought at least they only have to redownload them every three months, which is not too bad. But it didn't work. by didn't work I mean I use the quicktime object script provided by apple and with cache='true' enabled. It works for videos on garden variety webhosts, as I have tested. so i am pretty sure I have run out of options to look into on Quicktime's end.

What do you suggest?

thank you!

+1  A: 

Investigate the Cache-control headers that you get from S3. You can use e.g. Firebug to do this.

chris166
Hey Chris, sorry to have taken so long to reply to your answer, thank you by the way. I was away for the past week.
Nik