diff --git a/scripts/kiwix-compile-resources b/scripts/kiwix-compile-resources
index fca014e87..998a4abe7 100755
--- a/scripts/kiwix-compile-resources
+++ b/scripts/kiwix-compile-resources
@@ -61,6 +61,32 @@ resource_decl_template = """{namespaces_open}
 extern const std::string {identifier};
 {namespaces_close}"""
 
+BINARY_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS = {'.ico', '.png', '.ttf'}
+
+TEXT_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS = {
+    '.css',
+    '.html',
+    '.js',
+    '.json',
+    '.svg',
+    '.tmpl',
+    '.webmanifest',
+    '.xml',
+}
+
+if not BINARY_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS.isdisjoint(TEXT_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS):
+    raise RuntimeError(f"The following file type extensions are declared to be both binary and text: {BINARY_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS.intersection(TEXT_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS)}")
+
+def is_binary_resource(filename):
+    _, extension = os.path.splitext(filename)
+    is_binary = extension in BINARY_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS
+    is_text = extension in TEXT_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS
+    if not is_binary and not is_text:
+        # all file type extensions of static resources must be listed
+        # in either BINARY_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS or TEXT_RESOURCE_EXTENSIONS
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Unknown file type extension: {extension}")
+    return is_binary
+
 class Resource:
     def __init__(self, base_dirs, filename, cacheid=None):
         filename = filename
@@ -71,7 +97,9 @@ class Resource:
         for base_dir in base_dirs:
             try:
                 with open(os.path.join(base_dir, filename), 'rb') as f:
-                    self.data = f.read().replace(b"\r\n", b"\n")
+                    self.data = f.read()
+                    if not is_binary_resource(filename):
+                        self.data = self.data.replace(b"\r\n", b"\n")
                 found = True
                 break
             except FileNotFoundError:
diff --git a/src/server/internalServer.cpp b/src/server/internalServer.cpp
index d908a24e4..476e1a18c 100644
--- a/src/server/internalServer.cpp
+++ b/src/server/internalServer.cpp
@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ std::unique_ptr<Response> InternalServer::handle_search_request(const RequestCon
   } catch(std::runtime_error& e) {
     // Searcher->search will throw a runtime error if there is no valid xapian database to do the search.
     // (in case of zim file not containing a index)
-    const auto cssUrl = renderUrl(m_root, RESOURCE::templates::url_of_search_results_css);
+    const auto cssUrl = renderUrl(m_root, RESOURCE::templates::url_of_search_results_css_tmpl);
     HTTPErrorResponse response(request, MHD_HTTP_NOT_FOUND,
                                "fulltext-search-unavailable",
                                "404-page-heading",
diff --git a/static/resources_list.txt b/static/resources_list.txt
index 8e14c92c2..faa53cb3e 100644
--- a/static/resources_list.txt
+++ b/static/resources_list.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ templates/catalog_v2_entry.xml
 templates/catalog_v2_partial_entry.xml
 templates/catalog_v2_categories.xml
 templates/catalog_v2_languages.xml
-templates/url_of_search_results_css
+templates/url_of_search_results_css.tmpl
 templates/viewer_settings.js
 templates/no_js_library_page.html
 templates/no_js_download.html
diff --git a/static/templates/url_of_search_results_css b/static/templates/url_of_search_results_css.tmpl
similarity index 100%
rename from static/templates/url_of_search_results_css
rename to static/templates/url_of_search_results_css.tmpl
diff --git a/test/server.cpp b/test/server.cpp
index 5c73d2c37..a0ef64e3f 100644
--- a/test/server.cpp
+++ b/test/server.cpp
@@ -359,6 +359,57 @@ R"EXPECTEDRESULT(    <link type="text/css" href="/ROOT%23%3F/skin/search_results
   }
 }
 
+std::string getCacheIdFromUrl(const std::string& url)
+{
+  const std::string q("?cacheid=");
+  const auto i = url.find(q);
+  return i == std::string::npos ? "" : url.substr(i + q.size());
+}
+
+std::string runExternalCmdAndGetItsOutput(const std::string& cmd)
+{
+  std::string cmdOutput;
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#define popen _popen
+#define pclose _pclose
+#endif
+
+  if (FILE* pPipe = popen(cmd.c_str(), "r"))
+  {
+    char buf[128];
+    while (fgets(buf, 128, pPipe)) {
+        cmdOutput += std::string(buf, buf+128);
+    }
+
+    pclose(pPipe);
+  }
+
+  return cmdOutput;
+}
+
+std::string getSha1OfResponseData(const std::string& url)
+{
+  const std::string pythonScript =
+    "import urllib.request as req; "
+    "import hashlib; "
+    "print(hashlib.sha1(req.urlopen('" + url + "').read()).hexdigest())";
+  const std::string cmd = "python3 -c \"" + pythonScript + "\"";
+  return runExternalCmdAndGetItsOutput(cmd);
+}
+
+TEST_F(ServerTest, CacheIdsOfStaticResourcesMatchTheSha1HashOfResourceContent)
+{
+  for ( const Resource& res : all200Resources() ) {
+    if ( res.kind == STATIC_CONTENT ) {
+      const TestContext ctx{ {"url", res.url} };
+      const std::string fullUrl = "http://localhost:" + std::to_string(SERVER_PORT) + res.url;
+      const std::string sha1 = getSha1OfResponseData(fullUrl);
+      ASSERT_EQ(sha1.substr(0, 8), getCacheIdFromUrl(res.url)) << ctx;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 const char* urls400[] = {
   "/ROOT%23%3F/search",
   "/ROOT%23%3F/search?content=zimfile",