orkut caching issues

[Jason]

If you have been following the discussions this week, you may have
noticed a number of reports related to caching. Several developers
have reported that their applications have not been updating/
refreshing as frequently as they have in the past.

If you were affected by this, thank you very much for bearing with us.
The good news is that the problem has been located and a fix is coming
next week. In the meantime, the best way to prevent this bug from
affecting your application is by ensuring that your host returns an
Expires header.

Normally, orkut honors the Cache-Control header returned by the host
or, if no Cache-Control header is set, automatically flushes the cache
every five minutes. But until the fix is available, setting the
Expires header is the only way to reliably set the caching interval.

I will reply to this thread when the fix is pushed. Thank you.

- Jason

[someone somewhere]

Hi Jason,

I use GGE for hosting the XML. And my app hasn't been refreshed for
more than 1 day now. Some of these changes are important for the app.
What can I do till the fix is released next week?

[Jason]

Please ping me directly with your app's URL. Thanks!

- Jason

[JevS]

Jason,
My application in production not refreshed for 3 days now. Usually it
was for sandbox. Now it is opposite.
Thanks.
Jevs.

[puneet]

I made a small change in my app and it has been 5 days, still not
refreshed in orkut however changes appeared in sandbox in 3 days.

thanks,
-puneet

[RAJA SEKHAR]

Hi All

 

If u have any post request in u r js it will take more time to refresh

If u changed that request to POST then it is immidiatly refreshing

After deep studying i find this .I posted the thread but no one replied for this .SO for now i am following all request with POST only

 

Thanks

RajaSekhar V

[puneet]

Raja,

post and POST ? please elaborate it a little more.

thanks,
-puneet

On Jul 2, 4:51 pm, "RAJA SEKHAR" <rajaveern...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> If u have any post request in u r js it will take more time to refresh
> If u changed that request to POST then it is immidiatly refreshing
> After deep studying i find this .I posted the thread but no one replied for
> this .SO for now i am following all request with POST only
>
> Thanks
> RajaSekhar V
>

> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:59 AM, puneet <d3vilk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I made a small change in my app and it has been 5 days, still not
> > refreshed in orkut however changes appeared in sandbox in 3 days.
>
> > thanks,
> > -puneet
>

> --
> RajaSekhar

[RAJA SEKHAR]

HI puneet,

 

If u use the Method Type as POST

then it will immediately getting refreshed

If u use GET method it will take more than 2 days to refresh

 

Thanks

RajaSekhar

[JevS]

Hi RajaSekhar,

Probably you are speaking about makeRequest, but our problem that
application source changes in XML are not available for users for few
days.
In my case it was refreshed yesterday. I was lucky not to have any
errors for 3 days. But if you post something with an error, so for few
days users will see this error and no possibilities to fix it.
Jevs.

[Jason]

Hi Everyone.

As of today, the caching bug noted in my first post should be fixed --
orkut will now honor the Cache-Control and Expires headers provided by
your application's host, and, if neither header is provided, your
application's cache will be refreshed every five minutes.

In light of the recent caching issues, several of you may have opted
out of using our cache services completely in order to ensure that
your updates appear within a reasonable time frame. If you have done
this, please consider resetting your host's headers so your cache
won't "expire" as often. Not only will this take some strain off of
your own servers, but your users' experience will improve greatly as a
result (through faster load times and so forth).

Very soon, we will be announcing a URL that you can use to flush your
application's cache manually in the event of an application update,
etc. I'll reply to this thread when the URL is available.

Cheers!
- Jason

[Luciano Ricardi]

Great!! Great work!! :) Our application seems to be refreshing like expected now...

--
Luciano