No they were deliberately made not cached because otherwise in the event that some sensitive data got oversighted, they may still keep accessible from cached data, and there are even no way to have them go away. On Mar 29, 2014 11:40 AM, "Brian Wolff" <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/28/14, Shawn Jones <sj...@cs.odu.edu> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As part of our extension testing, we've set up varnish in accordance > > with http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Varnish_caching > > > > One of the things we've noticed is that our oldid URIs are cached, > > whereas Wikipedia doesn't seem to cache those pages. > > > > Is there a reason why Wikipedia doesn't do this? Is there some > > threshold that Wikipedia uses for caching? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Shawn M. Jones > > Graduate Research Assistant > > Department of Computer Science > > Old Dominion University > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > I think your caching is set up incorrectly. MediaWiki does not (afaik) > send an smaxage caching header for requests with an oldid in them. See > the $output->setSquidMaxage( $wgSquidMaxage ); line in > MediaWiki::performAction (line 425 of includes/Wiki.php). The caching > headers are only sent if the url is in the list of urls that can be > purged (basically normal page views and history page views). If other > pages are being cached, it probably means all pages are being cached > for you, which is not a good thing and will cause problems, since > there are some pages that really should not be cached. > > In the case of oldid urls, it may make sense for us to send caching > headers with oldid urls, since they do not change (excluding of course > oldid's that don't exist) > > --bawolff > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
