diff --git a/app/src/core/utils/reqres.ts b/app/src/core/utils/reqres.ts
index fa8c6ad..9890334 100644
--- a/app/src/core/utils/reqres.ts
+++ b/app/src/core/utils/reqres.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,16 @@ export function pickHeaders(headers: Headers, keys: string[]): Record<string, st
    return res;
 }
 
+export function pickHeaders2(headers: Headers, keys: string[]): Headers {
+   const newHeaders = new Headers();
+   for (const key of keys) {
+      if (headers.has(key)) {
+         newHeaders.set(key, headers.get(key)!);
+      }
+   }
+   return newHeaders;
+}
+
 export const replaceUrlParam = (urlString: string, params: Record<string, string>) => {
    let newString = urlString;
    for (const [k, v] of Object.entries(params)) {
diff --git a/app/src/media/api/MediaController.ts b/app/src/media/api/MediaController.ts
index db94553..415b3a3 100644
--- a/app/src/media/api/MediaController.ts
+++ b/app/src/media/api/MediaController.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { isDebug, tbValidator as tb } from "core";
-import { HttpStatus, Type, getFileFromContext } from "core/utils";
+import { HttpStatus, Type, getFileFromContext, headersToObject } from "core/utils";
 import type { StorageAdapter } from "media";
 import { StorageEvents, getRandomizedFilename } from "media";
 import { Controller } from "modules/Controller";
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export class MediaController extends Controller {
       });
 
       // get file by name
+      // @todo: implement more aggressive cache? (configurable)
       hono.get("/file/:filename", async (c) => {
          const { filename } = c.req.param();
          if (!filename) {
@@ -43,7 +44,16 @@ export class MediaController extends Controller {
          }
 
          await this.getStorage().emgr.emit(new StorageEvents.FileAccessEvent({ name: filename }));
-         return await this.getStorageAdapter().getObject(filename, c.req.raw.headers);
+         const res = await this.getStorageAdapter().getObject(filename, c.req.raw.headers);
+
+         const headers = new Headers(res.headers);
+         headers.set("Cache-Control", "public, max-age=31536000, immutable");
+
+         return new Response(res.body, {
+            status: res.status,
+            statusText: res.statusText,
+            headers,
+         });
       });
 
       // delete a file by name
diff --git a/app/src/media/storage/adapters/StorageS3Adapter.ts b/app/src/media/storage/adapters/StorageS3Adapter.ts
index 9d2cb50..c5bfe78 100644
--- a/app/src/media/storage/adapters/StorageS3Adapter.ts
+++ b/app/src/media/storage/adapters/StorageS3Adapter.ts
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import type {
    PutObjectRequest,
 } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";
 import { AwsClient, isDebug } from "core";
-import { type Static, Type, isFile, parse, pickHeaders } from "core/utils";
+import { type Static, Type, isFile, parse, pickHeaders, pickHeaders2 } from "core/utils";
 import { transform } from "lodash-es";
 import type { FileBody, FileListObject, StorageAdapter } from "../Storage";
 
@@ -171,7 +171,13 @@ export class StorageS3Adapter extends AwsClient implements StorageAdapter {
       const url = this.getUrl(key);
       const res = await this.fetch(url, {
          method: "GET",
-         headers: pickHeaders(headers, ["range"]),
+         headers: pickHeaders2(headers, [
+            "range",
+            "if-none-match",
+            "accept-encoding",
+            "accept",
+            "if-modified-since",
+         ]),
       });
 
       // Response has to be copied, because of middlewares that might set headers
diff --git a/app/vite.dev.ts b/app/vite.dev.ts
index 2120dfd..b30ec87 100644
--- a/app/vite.dev.ts
+++ b/app/vite.dev.ts
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ export default {
          if (firstStart) {
             console.log("[DB]", credentials);
             firstStart = false;
-            console.log("\n[APP ROUTES]");
+            /*console.log("\n[APP ROUTES]");
             showRoutes(app.server);
-            console.log("-------\n");
+            console.log("-------\n");*/
          }
       }