> There was a thread about this in early November:
>
> gemini://gemi.dev/gemini-mailing-list/messages/003077.gmi
>
> It appears that half want caching, half don't. It's a mess.
Well that's embarrassing. I don't know how I missed that *blush*. Thanks
for the link and sorry for the noise.
In case anyone is curious, this is the solution I came up with to
prevent caching. I have a cgi script like this:
if [ -z "$QUERY_STRING" ]; then
printf '30 %s?%s\r\n' \
"$(basename "$SCRIPT_PATH")" \
"$(date | tr ' :' __)"
else
printf '20 text/gemini\r\n'
generate_content
fi
Basically, if there is no query string on the path, it redirects you to
the same page with a cache busting query string constructed from the
current date and time. If there is a query string, it gives you the content.
It's not perfect. A user could bookmark a page with a cache busting
string on it and then see the same static page until it went out of
their cache. I don't think there is a way around that though.
~Stephen
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