Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 09:50 -0400, cfaust-dougot wrote: > >> What I have below works, but for some reason I'm not all that > comfortable with >> it.. Could someone tell me if I'm doing anything evil with my > approach?? > > Looks fine to me. SSI virtual includes are quite efficient with > mod_perl.
They are efficient, but you still need to be careful. At ApacheCon::EU they mentioned changing all apache.org sites to include a banner ad for the next ApacheCon that would rotate and they used SSI to do it. It increased their traffic 2-3x because it broke all of the caching happening at browsers, routers and proxies. If the content is truly dynamic, then it's a good solution. If it's content that rarely changes, pre-generation is probably a better solution. -- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP
