Yes. I changed the PHP script. Now I change them back and also set
CacheIgnoreCacheControl On. And still could not work. For other
questions, please see the my answers below. Thanks.
David Wortham wrote:
> Erica,
> My observations of your headers:
> (1) The "Last-Modified" line contains the current timestamp (as
expected)
After I set CacheIgnoreCacheControl On, it does not matter. Right ?
Although I move the headers to the top code, it still could not work.
> (2) Your original question showed that you inserted an "Expires:"
header,
> but it doesn't show in your response. Did you change your PHP script
> code
> since you asked the original question this morning?
Yes. It is my fault.
> (3) Are you returning XML or HTML? My experience with
XMLHttpResponse(s)
> required changing the content-type to "text/xml" (not really the issue
at
> hand)
>
Does it matter ?
> When you said that you got mod_cache to cache a JavaScript file, was
> it in
> the same directory (and covered by the same mod_cache directives)?
Yes, both javascript file and the php file are under htdocs directory.
>
> Did you try using the
> CacheIgnoreCacheControl On
> directive? Did it force the file to cache?
I tried. But it could not work.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
> On 3/6/07, Erica Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I use live http headers to catch the headers. I listed them below.
Well
>> I found that php file has not been given the http headers. So is this
>> the problem for not caching the response produced by it ? Then how
can
I
>> handle this problem ? Also, is there some mod_cache log that I could
>> refer ? Thanks.
>>
>> http://128.189.246.64/gethint.php?q=Eric&sid=0.11837499670287688
>>
>> GET /gethint.php?q=Eric&sid=0.11837499670287688 HTTP/1.1
>> Host: 128.189.246.64
>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.2)
>> Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2
>> Accept:
>> text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
>> ,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
>> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
>> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
>> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
>> Keep-Alive: 300
>> Connection: keep-alive
>> Referer: http://128.189.246.64/
>>
>> HTTP/1.x 200 OK
>> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:35:34 GMT
>> Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Win32)
>> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
>> Cache-Control: public
>> Last-Modified: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:35:34 GMT
>> Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=10000
>> Connection: Keep-Alive
>> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>> Content-Type: text/html
>>
>>
>> Erica Zhang wrote:
>>
>> > Well, even I use the blinding-cache. It still could not work.
Thanks,
>> >
>> > Erica
>> >
>> > David Wortham wrote:
>> >
>> >> Erica,
>> >> I'm not sure why mod_cache should not be able to work (assuming
>> your
>> >> module and pages are configured correctly).
>> >>
>> >> IIRC, JavaScript is used on the presentation request (with the
>> >> webpage),
>> >> whereas the XMLHttpRequest response is a PHP-generated XML
document.
>> >> Perhaps your extension ('.php" maybe?) or the mime/content-type
>> >> ("text/xml")
>> >> is what is causing mod_cache to skip the file?
>> >>
>> >> Also, from what I can gather, using mod_cache with mod_proxy
(as a
>> >> caching proxy) can alter the effects of mod_cache slightly.
You may
>> >> want to
>> >> read up on that.
>> >>
>> >> Try using the following directive with mod_cache:
>> >> CacheIgnoreNoLastMod On
>> >>
>> >> see:
>> >>
>>
http://webauth.stanford.edu/manual/mod/mod_cache.html#CacheIgnoreNoLastMod
>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This apparently forces blind-caching which Joe suggests is bad (I
>> >> don't know
>> >> anything about it). Short of that, you just need to read the
>> mod_cache
>> >> manual and make sure your XML response contains the necessary
headers
>> >> to get
>> >> mod_cache to work correctly.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Dave
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 3/6/07, Erica Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> No, still not work. Infact, mod_cache could work, because it
could
>> >>> cache
>> >>> the javascript. But it could not work for dynamic HTTP responses
>> >>> responding to XMLHttpRequests in Ajax technology. So I suspect
>> >>> mod_cache
>> >>> could not support this function. And I need provide such function
by
>> >>> myself. I prefer to do it in Apache, a comparatively general way
>> >>> instead
>> >>> of application itself.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Erica
>> >>>
>> >>> Joachim Zobel wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> >Am Montag, den 05.03.2007, 22:53 -0800 schrieb Erica Zhang:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >>header("Cache-Control: public"); // HTTP/1.1
>> >>> >>header("Expires: " .gmdate ("D, d M Y H:i:s", time() + 60 *
10).
"
>> >>> GMT");
>> >>> >>header( "Last-Modified: " .gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s' ). "
GMT" );
>> >>> >>echo $response;
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >
>> >>> >I am not shure about mod_caches behaviour, but omitting
>> >>> last-modified is
>> >>> >worth a try.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >Sincerely,
>> >>> >Joachim
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>
>>
>>
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