RE: Caching dynamic Webpages

You need to make your web server add HTTP header (Cache-Control: max-age=n
n is number of seconds you want this page be cached). You also need to check
squid.conf, make sure those pages can be cached.

Jenny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MProell@fti.de [SMTP:MProell@fti.de]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 8:03 AM
> To: squid
> Subject: Caching dynamic Webpages
>
> Hi,
>
> I've got the following problem:
> We've got a dynamic webpage with about 60.000 Pageviews a day, hosted on an
> AS/400. The problem is that every request causes a request on a database
> which has a result time of 1.8 seconds.
> The second problem is, that the database is only updated every 12 minutes.
> The third problem is, that we can't do any changes on the webserver, which
> could help us to make the page faster. (At least we don't know any...)
>
> The webserver generates a new page for each request. We wanted to cache
> this pages with squid in accelerator-mode and make him to reinitialize
> every 12 minutes after each update of the database.
>
> But it seems that squid is looking for each request on our webserver to see
> if there is a new version. And the webserver generates a new page and tells
> him that there is a new document in the http-header. So the expire-html-tag
> doesn't work.
>
> Did anyone had the same problem than we have? Or does anyone know a fast
> and reliable solution for that problem?
>
> The fact is that we are migrating on a new engine but that takes time (for
> approximatly two months). So it should be a solution which doesn't take too
> much time to make the web-frontend looking faster.
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Manni
Received on Thu Jun 15 2000 - 10:24:29 MDT