What is the best solution for htaccess caching

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Published on 2010-03-21T18:47:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 18:51 UTC
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I have found a number of articles such as this one that talk about using htaccess to cache images and files on your webserver.

But which is best, why, and what is the best implementation of this?

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