[wp-hackers] Re: WordPress + Squid?

[Omry Yadan]

hmm, maybe you can send the header for text/html BEFORE you send the 304?


Viper007Bond wrote:

> Sending that header there ended up making the site serve a
> application/octet-stream if you refreshed too fast.
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> We decided it wasn't worth the trouble and just enabled memcaching + sql
> caching. We also put a redirect to Coral in the .htaccess (commented out)
> just incase on those hard hitting days. We'll see how it goes soon (our
> traffic is uneven -- we essentially get slashdotted once a week and only in
> certain months).
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> On 9/11/07, Viper007Bond <viper at viper007bond.com> wrote:
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>> My web admin buddy who helps me run the server all my WordPress sites are
>> has set up Squid due to the traffic one of my sites gets (no, not my
>> personal blog sadly). I already run WP-Cache on it, but during peak times,
>> the server bogs down and becomes a tad slow.
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>> However, he says WordPress (well, more likely WP-Cache) isn't sending a
>> 304 header when the page hasn't been modified. Is all I need to do to fix
>> this is send a 304 via header() right before this line in
>> wp-cache-phase-1.php ?
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>> if ($meta->dynamic) {
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>> i.e. this:
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>> header( 'HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified' );
>> if ($meta->dynamic) {
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>>
>> Anyone knowledgeable care to weigh in?
>>
>> I'm running WP 2.2.3 on this particular install.
>>
>> --
>> Viper007Bond | http://www.viper007bond.com/
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