CacheFile.net is an HTTP web server that contains common Internet resources that are frequently reused on other web sites. It exists to alleviate the need for a common root URL for web resources that are otherwise not directly linkable at their primary URLs.
For example, popular Javascript libraries may have a direct download link for a specific version of their script files, but may discourage the direct linking of these files on their site. People are instead encouraged to download the scripts and manage them on their own servers. But the problem with each web site retaining its own copy of the same resources is that web users must re-download them all over again as they navigate from site to site. Over browsing five different jQuery-driven web sites using the same version of jQuery, there may be five different copies of the script being seperately downloaded.
You can take a peek at the listing of scripts and you can even grab a versioned file while setting the expires tag that you want:
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HTML:
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cachefile.net/scripts/yui/2.3.1/build/yahoo/yahoo.js?expires=Thu,+01+Jan+2009+00:00:00+GMT"></script>
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I am all for this idea. I want a central set of resources to host JavaScript files so browsers can do smart things and have special versions for browsers cached etc. The only issue with this particular site is:
* They could turn it off at any time (and mention this on the home page)
* Trust. We need some kind of trust relationship. I am sure Jon is a good guy, but if he wasn he could switch out the libraries. Or, not in a malicious way, the files could be incorrect
* CDN. AOL and Yahoo! use CDN is to serve their files
source: ajaxian
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