[Grok-dev] Strange session / security problem with Grok 0.14

[Ivo van der Wijk]

2009/1/16 Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com>:

>> If you every run into a similar issue, make sure you're not using
>> mod_cache. Heck, make sure you're not using mod_cache at all :)
>
> Is that conclusion because of mod_cache's seemingly rather bad
> misbehavior or are there yet more reasons not to use mod_cache? :)
>

I remember from the early days of apache 2.0 that mod_cache was
experimental (but supposed to be better than the caching mess in 1.x).
I haven't played with it since - Squid has always been way better, but
now that I've put some more research into mod_cache I've heard it just
doesn't do its job very well. It lacks fine grained configuration,
caches too agressively, etc.

Perhaps there are setups where mod_cache makes sense but I don't think
apache in front of Zope / Zope3 is one.

And its current behaviour in this setup confirms this.

Regards

Ivo


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