expiration_date v0.2.0

Expiration Date

Expiration Date is a convenient little utility for abstracting some of the work you might do to afford robust cache strings.

npm install expiration_date

var expire = require('expiration_date')

var express = require('express')
var app = express.createServer()

var fs = require('fs')

var file = fs.readFileSync('somn.jpg')

app.get('*', function(req, res) {
    expire.setExpiration(res, 'two days')    
    res.end(file)
})

This module has two exported methods: setExpiration and getSeconds. The getSeconds method will accept any of the following strings, and return the appropriate value in seconds.

'one minute'
'9 days'
'16 years and one day'
'one hour and 1 minute and twenty seconds'

setExpiration will simply attach Expires and Cache-Control to the response object for you. Pass the response object or time string in any order.

This module is used internally by Lactate