Hi all
I've been pondering something about the impact of cacheing (both
locally and via proxy servers), and its impact on mhonarc indexes.
If this displays some ignorance of HTTP specs, I plead guilty :)
Basically, an index page is updated whever the archive is modified,
but if a user has cached an earlier copy of the index, that won't
refclect the changes. So, every time a user looks at the index,
should he/she reload it?
Or is the http protocol clever enough to ensure that if a page is
requested fom a proxy server that returns a cached copy, the proxy
will first ensure that the cached page is up-to-date, and request a
fresh copy if necessary?
I was wondering about using the "expires" META tag to expire pages.
But unfortunately, from what I understand of the specs, this tag only
allows specification of an absilute date, not of an offset, which is
a bit limiting. I would like to be able to specify a 24 hours"
value for "expires", because whilst an absolute day of now+24hours
would work fine whilst the archives are current, I don't like to
think of the ugliness of indexes to old periods being
permanently stamped as "expired".
Can anyone help me get my head around this?
Thanks,
Claire
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Claire McNab -- Claire(_at_)siberia(_dot_)demon(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk