[Mediawiki-l] Re: Caching is making me crazy...

[Anders Wegge Jakobsen]

"Jan" == Jan Steinman <Jan at Bytesmiths.com> writes:

> On 28 Feb 2005, at 10:58, Rowan Collins wrote:
>> The point is, this is a chicken-and-egg problem - if the page is being
>> read from cache, there is no way of knowing whether or not it contains
>> an extension tag, or any other feature. It is logically impossible to
>> determine whether to parse something as part of the process of parsing
>> it.

> I suggested a specific namespace, and asked for comments, and got a
> big yawn.

> It seems to me one could subclass Article or something so that the
> namespace "Dynamic:" would never be cached, for example.

> I ask again: comments?

 Pages in the Special: namespace? They are sent with the followin
header bit: 

    Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0

 Unless I misunderstand what you want, that should be perfectly
sensible for your purposes. 

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