[Zope-CMF] Zope cache problems

Geoff Davis geoff@geoffdavis.net
Sun, 18 Aug 2002 17:30:52 -0400


Hmm.  One potential issue is that the max-age tag is an HTTP 1.1 tag.  Try
using an  Expires header (an HTTP 1.0 tag) instead.  You need to specify an
HTTP date in GMT, e.g.

Expires: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:00:00 GMT

See http://www.web-caching.com/mnot_tutorial/how.html#EXPIRES

Geoff



Geoff Davis
http://www.geoffdavis.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Bramah" <andybramah@cantab.net>
To: "Geoff Davis" <geoff@geoffdavis.net>; "Plone Developers"
<plone-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>; "Zope CMF" <zope-cmf@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 7:26 AM
Subject: RE: [Zope-CMF] Zope cache problems


> Hello,
>
> I've tried changing and removing the must-revalidate, and it doesn't seem
to
> make any difference. What should I be doing?
>
> The caching problems seem to be really slowing my Plone site down. When I
> request a Plone page from localhost, it loads almost instantaneously. But
> when I try and access the site from elsewhere, the page takes ages to
> appear. I use IE, and the blue progress bar moves quickly all the way over
> to the right, then sits and does nothing for ages. The page then appears
all
> at once.
>
> I notice this happens on www.plone.org as well.
>
> Pages download almost instantly if I use the No CSS skin.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Andy.
>