Caching and headers

[eluser]Aquillyne[/eluser]
[quote author="beemr" date="1216706571"]Simply recognizing the suffix will give you enough flexibility to extend CI's rendering abilities while still based around a common URI.[/quote]

People have continually associated this thread with suffixes and the Suffix cache extension, because of its clear usage in pages of different mime-types.

Wrong association.

Recognising the suffix won't fix my problem. Mine isn't a problem about mime-types, it's about headers. (Which send mime-types. But the difference, as you will appreciate, is huge).

If the suffix is recognised then I can get a separate cache for foo.css and foo.js. Fantastic. But still, neither of them, when the cache is delivered, will be accompanied by their respective "text/css" and "text/javascript" headers. That's the issue I'm trying to address. Regardless of how the cache grabs the URI, subsequent returns of the cache don't also return the appropriate headers.