Re: dynamic vs. mostly static data

[Marinos J. Yannikos]

> If you have a caching proxy server running in front of your mod_perl
> server (like mod_proxy or Squid), you can just set Expires headers in your
> pages and this will be handled for you by the proxy.

True, both methods have advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of
using mod_rewrite and static pages are:
- less configuration / maintainance overhead
- somewhat fewer resources needed
- no extra care needed with headers
- static pages can be removed at any time and kept around as long as needed,
individual static pages can be removed and regenerated

The obvious disadvantage is that it may be tricky to find / maintain an
URL/file encoding scheme that can handle all the possible arguments for
dynamic pages.

-mjy
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