New version of plugins from 3rd party repo does not appear

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Author Name: Saber Razmjooei (@saberraz)
Original Redmine Issue: 17411
Affected QGIS version: 2.18.14
Redmine category:python_plugins
Assignee: Borys Jurgiel

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There seems to be a problem with QGIS cache when reading data from 3rd party plugin repo.

The xml file shows there is a new version. But QGIS plugin manager does not see the new version. Deleting cache folder will solve the problem. But clearing the cache should be done as a part of Reloading Plugin repos.

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Author Name: Borys Jurgiel (@borysiasty)

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Hi Saber,

I believe QGIS only uses the cache if the http response header contains @cache-control:max-age=NNNNNN@. Could you please confirm the affected repo actually adds it? If I'm right, it's enough to just fix the http server configuration. Otherwise could you send me the headers?

By the way, we can tell plugin installer to ignore the header directive (no need to clear all the cache), but I'm not convinced to force downloading every repository, even if it doesn't want to be reloaded. Some people already complain for the repo fetching time :)

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• assigned_to_id was configured as Borys Jurgiel

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Author Name: Saber Razmjooei (@saberraz)

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Thanks Borys. It was indeed due to Cache-Control:max-age on our server. We will change that.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• resolution was changed from to invalid