24 Sep, 2010

1 commit

  • 59489b86   Removing invented %{} 'markup' from links ... Browse File » 
    It turns out that Internet Explorer has problems with it. It looks like it
is trying to parse that text as %-escape caracters, and since the parsing
fails, it does not put those links as proper DOM elements but as 'raw'
objects, and thus the .href attribute does not exist (actually an error
occurs if you try to access such attribute on those objects).

This bug was introduced by the HTTP caching commit (ActionItem1608)

(ActionItem1711)
    Antonio Terceiro
     

14 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • 1df72533   First stab at HTTP caching ... Browse File » 
    Implemented cache policy:

  * the homepage is cached for 5 minutes by default. This time can be
    configured with the =home_cache_in_minutes= attribute in the environment.
  * non-profile pages are cached for 15 minutes by default. This time can be
    configured with the =general_cache_in_minutes= attribute in the
    environment.
  * profile pages are cached for 15 minutes by default. This time can be
    configured in the =profile_cache_in_minutes= attribute in the environment.
  * The account controller (/account/*) is not cached at all.
  * The environment administration area (/admin/*) is not cached at all.
  * The profile administration area (/myprofile/*) is not cached at all.
  * Since Varnish will not cache any request that involves cookies:
    * Authenticated users will not benefit from the cache.
    * Cookies are not allowed for unauthenticated users. So, when a response is
      being prepared for an unauthenticated user, all cookies are wiped out.

The contents of the login block and the login/logout part of the header is now
loaded via an AJAX call to /account/user_data. This way we can cache almost all
pages without caching user-specific data.

We are also changing substantially how the flash[:notice] messages work. From
now on, instead of setting flash[:notice], we must set session[:flash]. It will
work more or less like before, except that session[:notice] will be consumed by
the AJAX call to /account/user_data that is done during all page loads instead
of being consumed automatically by Rails. The only exception to this is the
media_panel, because it uses a different layout.

(ActionItem1608)
    Antonio Terceiro