[Mediawiki-l] Caching Issues

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Thu May 1 22:25:11 UTC 2008


Russ Lavoy wrote:
>> My problem is this, the caching device caches the IP
>> and username of people that are anonymous or logged
>> in.  If someone logs in as "joe" and browses around
>> and another user name "jack" browses to the same
>> page,
>> "jack" will notice his name changed to "joe".
>>
>> I am not sure how this is happening...  But when I
>> turn off caching on the device the issue goes away
>> and
>> never comes back.
>>
>> Is there some special character or string I need to
>> exclude from the cache?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt

Your cache device needs to follow Vary: headers. Probably it has some 
option to do so.




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