Provide caching headers

[wmertens]

So the current implementation gives the client an etag which is already nice but the browser will still send out a request. Using the connect.static maxAge parameter sets the caching headers so the browser will not even send a request for the code, speeding up the connection.

https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/blob/a9f20e450b8c197e22da41d3d1d610685878489d/lib/middleware/static.js#L168

Since you're not using connect.static I think it may be enough to just add the header at

https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel/blob/bfc517f7250eaf17ba6ade4ec02e37ac58eab0bd/lib/server.coffee#L840

but there may be some subtlety involved.

It is desirable to turn off this header while developing the client code, so some sort of option would have to be settable, but I think setting the default to at least a day is probably a good idea.

[josephg]

Sounds good. Pull request?

[wenzowski]

It's been a while since this was opened, is it still relevant?

[josephg]

I think so - but I'm not sure what the maxAge parameter should be set to. I guess it could be configurable. I won't get to this myself - its too low on my priority list.