Re: Distorted style of forum website

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 12:09:47AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> "Massimo B. " <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >> Their forum software is buggy (which is not surprising, it's written in
> >> PHP), but Polipo should be able to deal with that.  So it looks like a bug
> >> in Polipo triggered by their bug.
> 
> > Does that mean you can reproduce the problem?
> 
> No, just an educated guess based on some protocol switching.  If you
> confirm that dontCacheVaryETag fixes the issue reliably, I can try
> producing a patch.
> 
> Richard Z <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > reminds me of a problem with wikipedia. It works fine when online but
> > something style sheets related goes wrong when loading various articles
> > from polipo cache.
> 
> I no longer use the offline mode of Polipo, but if you can provide the
> headers of an incorrect request, I'm interested.

problem is, it is absolutely not obvious what or where goes wrong. Looking
at it with the firefox web-console/network - all requests complete without
error and with seemingly sensible data from cache. Maybe the css data is
not url-idempotent for different articles?

Richard

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