Every morning when I go to The Monestary Gates, I get to see the logged-in MG page of the last monk in my company to be logged-in yesterday. As soon as I click on a link anywhere in PM, I then get to see my login button, so I'm not actually logged-in as the other monk, just the page being cached inappropriately by our company gateway.

Well, I was just reading this node by Asim about using the Expires and Cache-Control HTML features to prevent or limit page caching, so I immediately went to look at the source HTML for The Monestary Gates, and sure enough, no Expires or Cache-Control.

I don't know if these would prevent the caching weirdness I see with our company gateway, but I would guess The Monestary Gates (and probably ALL PM pages) should expire within a few minutes. I did a super-search and found this topic discussed many times, but never in relation to PM pages. Perhaps some of the longer-standing monks can comment on if this has ever been tried. Probably other company gateways are showing people other monk's pages, which could be a security issue.

drinkd

btw. I am running the most recent Mozilla browser, if that matters, and our gateway specifics are not known by me (>100k employees, gateway at another site). Also, all of the monks at my company are higher level than me, so its just depressing to see that they only need 500 more points to get to level 15, and have 658 votes left, or whatever.

In reply to Page Expiration by drinkd

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