Had to paste this, ashok as you advice people that no-cache at all is a bad practice you might need to communicate with yahoo, cnn & various news site. The lecturer who said that must know that technology changes as soon as first years finish campus :-)) ... see below from yahoo , I could hv bored you with more from cnn & bbc but for the list be warned that not all stuff lecturers & experts say are true .. internet is all about invention it has not formula thats why a best practice is put in place. *<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en-US"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://l.yimg.com/b/news/combo/KLO098jh?http%3A//l.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.com/combo%3Fuh/css/uh-1.1.3.css&story/assets/css/1.0.1/generic/story.css" type="text/css"></link> <link rel="canonical" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090721/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan"></link> <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache"> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">* On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Sam Oduor <sam.oduor@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, What you mention is primarily one of the reasons caching was invented , it goes a long way off-loading a few stuff from the web server besides jst memory, well it affects the number of hits you get though if your site relies on hit counters for marketing there is probably a reduction on the counters with caching Implemented.
"No-cache at all" is though recommended for dynamic websites that change hourly, per-minute , per -second take something like a news site that needs to update breaking news.
The caching thats recommended for users who sites is more close to static is content expiry. That too was posted by earlier on.
Moving forth, would you mind telling me the sites name I also try it from my location & see. Pls include the uri's reporting problems so that we can work on a resolve & ask the provider if this is really an issue to do with them. I know of many techies who say the problem is there & are not willing to take part in resolves because of their ego issue & stuff .. that does not scale and does not help skunkers ... this is a place for resolution not small talks.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:43 AM, <ashok+skunkworks@parliaments.info<ashok%2Bskunkworks@parliaments.info>
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Big Quark<thebigquark@gmail.com> wrote:
The thing is, if I access the same sites form a diferent location (with a different ISP), I am able to see my changes... :(
Its your ISP at fault ... i have had similar issues with Accesskenya ... had to ask them to not cache certain addresses and IPs ....
Using pragma-no-cache directives etc. is bad practice and will probably slow down your site significant if you get many requests.... _______________________________________________ Skunkworks mailing list Skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks Other services @ http://my.co.ke Other lists ------------- Announce: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks-announce Science: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/science kazi: http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/admin/kazi/general
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