[pmwiki-users] Caching strategy

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 09:50:34AM +0200, Christophe David wrote:
> As far as I understand, PmWiki does all it can to disable local
> caching by the client browser,  as the pages are exptected to change
> at any time.
> 
> > $PageListCacheDir = 'work.d';
> > $PageCacheDir = 'work.d';
> 
> Now that we have page caching and pagelist caching available, is this
> approach still the best ?
> 
> If an admin chooses to use caching, shouldn't (if not yet the case)
> the pages that are rendered from the cache be allowed to be cached by
> the client browser too ?

Sure.  Just set:

    $EnableIMSCaching = 1;

PmWiki then uses the If-Modified-Since request header to 
(smartly) manage the browser's cache also.

Pm