Caching files on the client side for more than a day can confuse the end user
when updating static files[1].
Depending on the way of providing a SearXNG instance via HTTP, there are several
ways to optimize the access to the /static files. However, since we don't know
what optimization an admin has provided for his static files, we should have
moderate settings in the defaults that run robustly in a wide variety of
installations.
In this sense, all caches on the client side should be cleared after one day at
the latest. So far the files were cached for one year on client side; as soon
as changes are made to the static files (with the option `static_use_hash:
true`) the old static files are kept for one year on the CLient side / which can
also be evaluated as unnecessary caching.
[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng/discussions/2821
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Python's default encoding depends on the platform, set (python) default encoding
UTF-8 in uwsgi ini files:
LANG=C.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8
LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
Error pattern:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/searx/searx-src/searx/webapp.py", line 74, in <module>
from searx.search import SearchWithPlugins, get_search_query_from_webapp
File "/usr/local/searx/searx-src/searx/search.py", line 32, in <module>
from searx.external_bang import get_bang_url
File "/usr/local/searx/searx-src/searx/external_bang.py", line 13, in <module>
for bang in json.load(json_file)['bang']:
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/json/__init__.py", line 293, in load
return loads(fp.read(),
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 31341: ordinal not in range(128)
close: https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/issues/2041
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Markus Heiser