[seaside] caching problem

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 06:16:18 UTC 2006


2006/10/25, saza solutions <fzak at sazasolutions.com>:
> Hi all,
> This is the first time I make a submition to the list.
>
> For the last year and a half I´ve been using seaside in squeak, and built a
> decision engine application.
>
> I´ve been experiencing the following: all the gifs appeare mixed up.
>
> I cache the gifs, putting all the gifs in ScriptingSystem formDictionary, I
> store the byteArray directly.
>
> I realized that the application has been using offline content stored in the
> temporary files folder. Then, I change Explorer setting to check the version
> of a page, every time the page is visited (the previous setting was
> "automatic"). But I continued experiencing the problem.
>
> Then I realized that the key generated in WAExternalID by means of:
> initialize
>  GeneratorMutex critical:
>   [1 to: self size do: [:i | self at: i put: ((($a to: $z), ($A to: $Z))
> atRandom: Generator) asInteger]]
>
> was exactly the same as one located in the temporary files.
>
> I also saw that WADocumentHandler>>response sets an expiration time to year
> 2095.
>
> response
>  | response |
>  response _ WAResponse new.
>  response contents: self mimeDocument contentStream text.
>  response contentType: (mimeType ifNil: [self mimeDocument contentType]).
>  response headerAt: 'Expires' put: 'Thu, 01 Jan 2095 12:00:00 GMT'.
>  fileName ifNotNil:
>   [response headerAt: 'Content-Disposition' put: 'attachment; filename=' ,
> fileName].
>  ^ response
>
> Now, I´m attacking the problem in the following ways:
> - changes the web browser setting to review page version every time is
> visited.
> - changed expiration time to a shorter time.
> - changed the way WAExternalID is generated, trying to make it more random.
> Does anybody has another ideas ?, Am I facing the problem correctly ?,
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> I´d like to add that Seside is an amazing and productive framework.
>
> Felipe

Whats the bigger problem you're trying to solve? Serve static files?
Serve dynamically generated files?

Philippe


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