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How can I find where a cached file is being served from?

When I visit a particular site on my laptop through my tethered phone's 3G, I keep getting served a certain broken javascript file. However when I do a force refresh on the page (Ctrl+F5) the most recent copy of the file is served up correctly, so clearly the old javascript file is being cached somewhere (probably on my phone providers p...

Downsides to using querystrings to version static files?

It seems that in order to force users to refresh cached static files (e.g., .css, .js) some sites (e.g., stackoverflow.com) append querystrings to the end of files. For example: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/all.css?v=9ea1a272f146"&gt; I think this is a good idea, and am inclined to sta...