I just checked it out, and it seems to work fine. Going back to nodes that I have just been to indeed loads from a cache (and it's not my browser) instead of perlmonks. Now if only you could setup a cron script to do the updating automatically, but we all know that is a foolish idea and shouldn't be considered (updating all the nodes in the cache every few minutes? lol).

One thing I will mention: merlyn has written an article that could be very useful in this sort of application. The only change you would really need to incorporate is this: set a lower time limit of when content should be re-grabbed from the perlmonks server, but where the older content is still shown. (ie: After a cached node is older than 3 minutes, show this 3-minute-old node and fork() off a process to recache the node in the background). Then, select a second, longer time limit at which content will be grabbed fresh from the perlmonks server and displayed directly to the user and cached. In this way, you will pick up a little more speed. For a more in-depth description of what I'm talking about, read that article I pointed to.

Update: Though it's cool, does this really have a lot of use? The only thing this really does is not have to hit the server for the same node every 2 minutes. Unless lots of users started using this, it won't decrease the server load on perlmonks in any way. Even then, you simply throw the user onto the actual perlmonks site as soon as they try to submit a form. Maybe if you could send form data through your server as well. All I do around here is submit forms: login, chatterbox (unusual, but it happens), consideration of nodes, search, poll, etc etc. So it doesn't give me all that big of an advantage.

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