Locally Cached Thumbnails Always Loading Uncached from Server

I *guess* the problem is that WPE are talking about edge cache/ cdn cache and I *guess* these are not cached at that level because the image URL is a dynamic one (lyteThumbs.php?stuff_in_the_query_string) in which case most caches decide the resource cannot be cached. Not something we can fix at LYTE’s level I’m afraid, but maybe somehow configurable at that edge cache/ CDN level?

frank

Hey Frank, gotcha, that makes sense. If I deselect this cache locally, it will just pull from YT every time? Also, is there any way to make these non-dynamic? OR I guess I don’t understand the benefit of having them dynamic…

they’re dynamic because lyteThumbs.php has logic to fetch, cache & serve any image from youtube, allowing the cache to be transient; if the cache gets deleted (on purpose or by accident), it will automagically rebuild. having the image paths entirely static would require a more complex and less performant setup including logic in each post rendering to check if the image is indeed already cached.

and indeed; if not caching locally images will be pulled from YT every time.

thank you Frank!!

You’re welcome Kyle ??