in reply to Page Expiration

The problem is that this means the users will be putting a serious smack-down on the servers, even harder than they already down. The cache helps (usually...) on both ends, and, as already mentioned, this would not be the only site that would have this problem. So, all in all, I can't recommend a short cache-time for PerlMonks, which is already, one guesses, hard-up for bandwidth and processor time.

For you guys, I would recommed going to your company, because issues like this are security-related, and will affect more than one user. Or...in Mozilla, Go Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Cache, and change it to "Every Time I view the Page", and see if that doesn't help the problem.

----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.

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Re: Re: Page Expiration
by buckaduck (Chaplain) on Nov 09, 2001 at 23:30 UTC
    We have already played with Mozilla's cache, to no avail. (Update: Although I should point out that Mozilla 0.9.5 does seem to overaggressively cache many things, regardless of the settings.) And we have also seen this happen with other browsers, such as IE.

    Regarding the toll that this would take on PerlMonks: Maybe an expiration after 3 minutes would be extreme. But it currently isn't even expiring after 12 hours. That's a pretty long time. Even the front page changes more frequently than that...

    buckaduck