Headers

Background

HTTP is the technical method that your browser uses to talk to servers and get web pages.

One of the features of HTTP is metadata called headers. This is additional information delivered to your browser alongside the web page itself. The kinds of information can include:

• Is it an image, text, a PDF, etc

• How long your browser should keep a copy before asking the server again

• Can other websites use it

• Should it be displayed or downloaded

• What human language is it in

• How old is the content

• etc

Headers in SAU

Swiss Army Upload supports reading a _headers file (similar to Netlify) and applying it to your site.

However, different services have different capabilities. For example, Git Pages only allows a specific set of headers to be customized. See Supported Services for specifics.

This is an option on both cmd-get and cmd-sync.