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Everything You Wanted To Know About Caching (mnot.net)
133 points by krat0sprakhar on May 20, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



You should add the word "web" to the title. There are many other kinds of caching.


It's still a nice resource, but it's been posted many times before.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3598773


this is good, but somewhat outdated. I haven't used iplanet since 1999. Also SSL/HTTPS is a whole different world.


in the scripts section he says "Generate Content-Length response headers. It’s easy to do, and it will allow the response of your script to be used in a persistent connection. This allows clients to request multiple representations on one TCP/IP connection, instead of setting up a connection for every request. It makes your site seem much faster."

does he mean, for example, when serving up a dynamic php page, where the content might change for each request, you should still generate a content-length header before outputing the content?


Great primer on web caching.




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