[ic] Static pages to boost performance

[Dan Browning]

* Jonathan Melhuish <jon@netacclaim.co.uk> [2003-06-24 10:53]:
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> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 17:49, Dan Browning wrote:
> > Then you point your browser to that location and see if it works.  If your
> > experience is like mine, then you'll find that it did not work.  Although
> > it would be a very valuable feature (allowing some requests to be served
> > static, and others, like the shopping cart, to be dynamic), it would likely
> > take a donation of time or money to get it working right.  Until that
> > happens, the feature has been removed from 4.9.7+.
> 
> You're right it doesn't work at all :-(  All the search pages just come back:
> 
> "Sorry, no matches for . 
> Errors:  No search was found"
> 
> But I'm afraid I'm not exactly a l33t c0d3m135t0r and I'm skint :-(
> 
> > Alternatives right now are home-brew cache systems, and [timed-build].
> 
> I'm right in thinking that [timed-build] is a page tag that you have to put on 
> *every* page (or component) that you want cached?  I'd rather avoid doing 
> that...
> 
> Just a very simple Yes/No question, then - if I generate a static version with 
> wget, can my users switch between the static version and online version 
> without losing their cart?

It wont work unless you do a lot of custom mods after mirroring... and those 
custom mods would be better done within Interchange, IMHO.

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