[Dillo-dev] Disable caching

[Fredrik Gustafsson]

Hi,
although caching mostly is good, there is serveral occasions when it's
not wanted, specially with todays web2.0-concepts (user generated pages,
etc.).

Is there a way to disable caching in dillo? Maybe only for some sites?

I've searched the archives and found a patch doing this, it was however
dated back in 2003. So I'm intrested in som up-to-date information.

Regards
iveqy

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[corvid]

Fredrik wrote:
> Hi,
> although caching mostly is good, there is serveral occasions when it's
> not wanted, specially with todays web2.0-concepts (user generated pages,
> etc.).
>
> Is there a way to disable caching in dillo? Maybe only for some sites?
>
> I've searched the archives and found a patch doing this, it was however
> dated back in 2003. So I'm intrested in som up-to-date information.

To the best of my knowledge,
- no one is working on it
- but a good patch would be gladly accepted.

Was there any discussion in the archive on why the 2003 patch wasn't
integrated?

[Jorge Arellano Cid]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 06:59:34PM +0000, corvid wrote:
> Fredrik wrote:
> > Hi,
> > although caching mostly is good, there is serveral occasions when it's
> > not wanted, specially with todays web2.0-concepts (user generated pages,
> > etc.).
> >
> > Is there a way to disable caching in dillo? Maybe only for some sites?
> >
> > I've searched the archives and found a patch doing this, it was however
> > dated back in 2003. So I'm intrested in som up-to-date information.
>
> To the best of my knowledge,
> - no one is working on it
> - but a good patch would be gladly accepted.
>
> Was there any discussion in the archive on why the 2003 patch wasn't
> integrated?

AFAIR, at that time most of the no-cache directives were used
to refresh advertising, and some sites did it by refreshing the
main page each time. Besides the bandwith/money waste (nasty with
pay-per-traffic billing), it killed offline-browsing.

Now, being able to follow no-cache "only for some sites" may be
useful as a feature. Personally, I believe most of the web2.0
sites will not work with dillo until some javascript subset is
implemented.

--
Cheers
Jorge.-