[pmwiki-users] Slashdotting?

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon May 14 16:43:58 CDT 2007


On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:37:14PM -0700, pmwiki at 911networks.com wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007 15:58:37 -0500
> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > These cannot be cached because they generate <meta ... />
> > tags in the <head> section of the resulting HTML, as opposed
> > to most other markups which appear in a continuous section
> > of the <body>.  So, in order to generate those entries
> > in the output HTML we have to actively process the markup.
> > 
> > Yes, it would be nice if there was a way for us to keep
> > track of any output that needs to be cached for the
> > <head> section, but there's also the issue that the
> > order of entries in <head> matters as well.  So, it's not
> > a simple problem.
> 
> What about caching the complete page, and if the date/time is more
> recent ...
> or
> What about a directive that say:
>    (:alwayscache:)
> Then the user is responsible...

We'd have to cache the HTTP headers as well.  But that might be
doable.

Pm



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