MasonHQ node caching, and other bugs

This posting is related to usage of MasonHQ. My appologies if this is the 
wrong forum.

I'm building a Wiki web site based upon the MasonHQ code. Besides being a 
little slow, it works pretty well. But I found a few bugs; one particular 
is causing much grief.

1) Content caching.

When editing a page, especially when editing a page that has just been 
updated, I often find myself editing old content. The edit.html loads old 
content into the form. A few reloads will cycle between various revisions 
of the page. The page is not cached by a proxy server. Tracking through 
the code, I end up on lib/MHQ/Wiki/Node.pm in the latest_version() 
subroutine. This piece of code does not return the latest version, but 
instead whatever is cached in ... in apache I guess.

   sub latest_version
   {
     my ($self) = @_;
     unless (defined($self->{_latest_version})) {
       ($self->{_latest_version}) =
         $self->versions(version_id=>$self->latest_version_id);
     }
     return $self->{_latest_version};
   }

Changing the code to

   sub latest_version
   {
     my ($self) = @_;
     ($self->{_latest_version}) =
       $self->versions(version_id=>$self->latest_version_id);
     return $self->{_latest_version};
   }

does not help. Still old version numbers are produced here. From here I'm 
stuck. I can not figure out where to look next.

The remaining problems are not so bad:

2) Slowness, internal server error.

Starting up apache takes a lot of time. And new instances have to be 
spawned often, so the site is generally pretty slow. Keeping

   MaxRequestsPerChild 10

in conf/httpd-prod.conf.src generally works, but is slow. Increasing the 
number results in frequent internal server errors.

3) Links to local files.

The might be a restriction in Kwiki more than MasonHQ. But there seem to 
be no syntax for linking to local files. Links of this syntax are normally 
working as expected:

   http://this.site/cgi-bin/legacy.cgi

But writing

   /cgi-bin/legacy.cgi

or even

   [Legacy Data /cgi-bin/legacy.cgi]

does not create a link. Creating links to files in windows file servers 
are popular, but this style links does not work either.

   \\fileserver\share\orgchart.xls

I guess I can create new rules in lib/MHQ/CGI/Kwiki/Formatter.pm for this 
purpose?

4) Bugs and documentation

I have fixed a few other bugs in the code, as well as kept an installation 
journal that is more accurate than the one provided. Is there somewhere to 
send patches and docs updates?

Thanks,

Soren


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