I just created a ticket reporting this issue as a bug: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18863
Thanks for all the suggestions. On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:27:04 PM UTC-3, Alexis Bellido wrote: > > Hello, > > I am working on a Django 1.4 project and writing one simple application > using per-site cache as described here: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/cache/#the-per-site-cache > > I have correctly setup a local Memcached server and confirmed the pages > are being cached. > > Then I set CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ANONYMOUS_ONLY = True because I don't want to > cache pages for authenticated users. > > I'm testing with a simple view that returns a template with > render_to_response and RequestContext to be able to access user information > from the template and the caching works well so far, meaning it caches > pages just for anonymous users. > > And here's my problem. I created another view using a different template > that doesn't access user information and noticed that the page was being > cached even if the user was authenticated. After testing many things I > found that authenticated users were getting a cached page if the template > didn't print something from the user context variable. It's very simple to > test: print the user on the template and the page won't be cached for an > authenticated user, remove the user on the template, refresh the page while > authenticated and check the HTTP headers and you will notice you're getting > a cached page. You should clear the cache between changes to see the > problem more clearly. > > I tested a little more and found that I could get rid of the user in the > template and print request.user right on the view (which prints to the > development server console) and that also fixed the problem of showing a > cached page to an authenticated user but that's an ugly hack. > > A similar problem was reported here but never got an answer: > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/FyWmz9csy5g/discussion > > I can probably write a conditional decorator to check if > user.is_authenticated() and based on that use @never_cache on my view but > it seems like that defeats the purpose of using per-site cache, doesn't it? > > Any suggestions will be appreciated. > > Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/GCmx3b8WEZoJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
