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I'm using Amazon S3 to serve static assets for my website. I want to have browsers cache these assets for as long as possible. What meta-data headers should I include with my assets
Cache-Control: max-age=??? 
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Cache-control: max-age It is the maximum amount of time specified in the number of seconds. For example, max-age=90 means that a HTTP response remains in the browser as a cached copy for the next 90 seconds before it can be available for reuse.
Cache-control is an HTTP header used to specify browser caching policies in both client requests and server responses. Policies include how a resource is cached, where it's cached and its maximum age before expiring (i.e., time to live).
max-age. The max-age directive states the maximum amount of time in seconds that fetched responses are allowed to be used again (from the time when a request is made). For instance, max-age=90 indicates that an asset can be reused (remains in the browser cache) for the next 90 seconds.
To use cache-control in HTML, you use the meta tag, e.g. The value in the content field is defined as one of the four values below. HTTP 1.1. Allowed values = PUBLIC | PRIVATE | NO-CACHE | NO-STORE.
Generally one year is advised as a standard max value. See RFC 2616:
To mark a response as "never expires," an origin server sends an Expires date approximately one year from the time the response is sent. HTTP/1.1 servers SHOULD NOT send Expires dates more than one year in the future.
Although that applies to the older expires standard, it makes sense to apply to cache-control too in the absence of any explicit standards guidance. It's as long as you should generally need anyway and picking any arbitrarily longer value could break some user-agents. So:
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