Erik Moeller wrote:
I thought that we were moving towards having sections of a page dynamically generated and other sections statically cached, using ESI? If so, is there any reason not to display the login information?
The problem with ESI is that it first appears in Squid in version 3, and the problem with Squid 3 is that it's still in development. Progress towards a beta release has been very slow, see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=squid-dev&m=111032283701644&w=2
Note that the potential efficiency gains from Special:Mypage and co. have not actually been implemented, 1.5 still sends anti-squid headers if you have a session cookie. The problem of preference-dependent HTML in the content area has also not been addressed, so there's quite a lot of work to do before these navigation link changes will be useful. A temporary revert is probably in order.
-- Tim Starling