caching and "hello username" on each page

[Bram - Smartelectronix]

hello everyone,

I would LOVE to use caching for both anonymous and logged in users, but
the problem is that every page on our site (http://www.splicemusic.com)
has the typical "hello username | log out | ..." at the top of each page.

Now, how can I possibly cache both anonymous and logged in users easily?
I'm guessing that I would need to add @vary_on_cookie before for each
and every view?

- bram

[Nic James Ferrier]

If the username is the only thing you could store the username in a
cookie and have Javascript write it out. Then the page is completly
cacheable.

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Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk

[Doug B]

You could also make your own render_to_response() function that
renders and caches the generic part of the page, and then passes that
in as a context for your base layout with the non-cacheable stuff like
the username. Or make some of the generic stuff tags that cache
themselves using the lower level cache api.

[James Bennett]

On 7/28/07, Bram - Smartelectronix <br...@smartelectronix.com> wrote:
> I would LOVE to use caching for both anonymous and logged in users, but
> the problem is that every page on our site (http://www.splicemusic.com)
> has the typical "hello username | log out | ..." at the top of each page.

You might consider using finer-grained caching, so that you only cache
the things that are actually expensive to generate (e.g., complex
database lookups).

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