Re: POST caching - help

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:08:07 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> Yes, I understand that POST, by definition is non-cacheable. I also
> have PRG pattern in mind. With PRG pattern, caching the GET part is
> simpler. However, sending the first POST request to the server could
> not be avoided.

For anyone interested -- PRG means ``POST-Redirect-GET''.  It's the
common idiom of having the server reply to a POST with a redirect, which
causes the client to GET the next page, which in turn is cachable.

> Each and every POST request (XML) is huge... approx 2 - 5 kb.

As Phil Wadler once said about XML,

  « The problem it solves is not hard. It doesn't solve it very well. »

Sorry, Arun, but I suspect that you're trying to solve a problem at the
wrong layer.

                                        Juliusz

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