On Nov 13, 2007 6:41 PM, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/13/07, Stephen Bain
<stephen.bain(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Doesn't this happen anyway? A logged-in user
viewing a page for the
first time will never get a cached version.
Sure they will, if someone with the same parse-affecting preferences
has viewed it before them. And they don't have the "no cached pages"
preference on.
I'm confused; what exactly is in the cache for logged in users?
The HTML I see coming out the end has encoded username variable and username
in scripts and so forth.
I always assumed that logged in users generated a new HTML render every time
they hit a page, and that we assumed that logged in users were a small
enough fraction of total page views that it wasn't a big deal. But I'm not
familiar with the Wikipedia cacheing at all in detail; I've run a lot of
Mediawiki servers but never bothered to cache anything (none of them had
enough hits to make it worthwhile trying).
So... what's the underlying mechanism?
Thanks...
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com