[Zope-dev] Zope does dynamic, Linux kernel does staticpages?

[Hannu Krosing]

Jim Fulton wrote:
> 
> Amos Latteier wrote:
> >
> (snip)
> > I would like to add that the response generated by some objects depend on
> > the user. So for example we wouldn't want to cache DTML Methods which
> > display different data depending on the roles of the user who accessed the
> > page.
> 
> These are probably pages that don't want to be cached.

or that want to be cached with an url (key) that includes the role
and/or AUTHENTICATED_USER.

> > OK, maybe this can be abstracted to say that caching could be tied to
> > request environment variables, such as "AUTHENTICATED_USER", and "PATH_INFO".
> 
> And cookies....Ugh.

Maybe we can just attach some callback mechanisms to variable lookups
which,
among other things, also invalidate cache or change/lookup_new cache key
?

> I imagine that there might be a knob that a content manager or
> programmer could use to give Zope some hints in this regard.

Like the cacheing time for SQL Methods ?
 
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Hannu