Re: [lojban] Re: What's going with CloudFlare and caching and such.

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

How's the behaviour now?  You should be seeing that logging in gets
you the live site without caching.

On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 09:35:34AM -0800, la .eris. wrote:
> Personally, this is seeming like more trouble than it's worth. Pages keep 
> displaying improperly (looking like I'm not logged in, or like someone else 
> is logged in). I'd prefer to just have the site down when your server is 
> down and have everything work properly the rest of the time.
> 
> Incidentally, how do the Wikimedia Foundation wikis handle caching?
> 
> -Aris (aka. bookofportals)
> 
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 10:29:23 PM UTC-8, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> >
> > Some of you have noticed problems with dynamic content on lojban.org 
> > now that we've started using CloudFlare.  I haven't been able to 
> > figure out how to fix this, so here's what's going on; maybe 
> > somebody else will have ideas. 
> >
> > So the goal of CloudFlare, primarily, was to make it so that if my 
> > server went down, the site would be basically fine.  This we have 
> > acheived. 
> >
> > However, to do so, I had to use brute force.  Here's our CloudFlare 
> > page rules: 
> >
> > *lojban.org/*&*          Cache Level: Bypass 
> > *lojban.org/*edit*       Cache Level: Bypass 
> > *lojban.org/*Special:*  Cache Level: Bypass 
> > *lojban.org/*Talk:*     Cache Level: Bypass 
> > *lojban.org/*           Browser Cache TTL: 30 minutes, Always Online: On, 
> > Cache Level: Cache Everything, Edge Cache TTL: 2 hours, Origin Cache 
> > Control: Off 
> >
> > That last one is a very large hammer that says "just cache the hell 
> > out of everything". 
> >
> > The reason I need that hammer is that mediawiki is returning 
> > absurdly wrong caching headers.  Here's an example that entirely 
> > bypasses CloudFlare: 
> >
> > $ curl -k -v -H 'Host: mw.lojban.org' -L 
> > https://jukni.lojban.org/papri/pronunciation 2>&1 | less 
> > [snip] 
> > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
> > < Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 06:26:31 GMT 
> > < Server: Apache/2.4.38 (Debian) 
> > < X-Powered-By: PHP/7.3.14 
> > < X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff 
> > < Content-language: en 
> > < Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie 
> > < Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT 
> > < Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0 
> >
> > ^^ That.   That Cache-Control line is absurd, and effectively 
> > completely disableds CloudFlare. 
> >
> > I have tested this by talking *directly* to the mediawiki server, 
> > no SSL, no proxies, no nothing; it's the same. 
> >
> > Our LocalSettings.php file is attached. 
> >
> > I don't care if the solution is on the mediawiki side or the 
> > CloudFlare side, but at this point I've sunk more time into this 
> > than I can afford and I've come up empty, so I'd appreciate any 
> > ideas you might have. 
> >
> > Having said that, if you're going to point me at 
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CloudFlare#Integration_with_MediaWiki 
> > , you'll need to tell me exactly which part you think is relevant, 
> > and why.  Most of that page is about making X-Forwarded-For: do the 
> > right thing, which is totally irrelevant to this problem. 
> >
> > Thanks for any help. 
> >
> 
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