Every other time that I reload a cached page the cache_render stat will say "n/a (first request?)". However, I know that the page is actually coming from cache because it looks different than an uncached page would look. This makes the statistics significantly less useful for debugging.

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EvanDonovan’s picture

Strangely, it seems like this only happens in Firefox. The statistics work fine in Internet Explorer 7.

EvanDonovan’s picture

Actually, ignore what I said in #1. It seems like this issue is not browser-specific, nor am I convinced that is actually a statistics issue. I'm not actually sure if the pages are being served from the cache at all.

EvanDonovan’s picture

On some especially slow pages, it does seem to be making a visible difference though, so I *think* pages are being served from the cache.

Jonah Ellison’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » Jonah Ellison

Yeah, I'm working on making that message give more meaningful information (such as telling why a page wasn't cached). You can always "view source" and check for the "authcacheFooter" JSON at the bottom.

Thanks for posting your other issues--I'll look into them in more detail this weekend.

EvanDonovan’s picture

Thanks. I was looking at the source and I saw "-1" under cache_render. The authcacheJSON footer was there, though.

nikemen’s picture

Same problem here!

Jonah Ellison’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

Authcache beta7 has a lot of changes for displaying debugging information. Hopefully this will resolve this.

One issue is that Firefox 3 doesn't always update the cache_render cookie when a "Last-Modified" header is sent. (http://us.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php#90616). I've changed the caching headers to use Etag instead.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

ezra-g’s picture

Version: 6.x-1.0-beta6 » 6.x-6.x-dev
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I hate to re-open an a fixed issue, but I'm observing this problem -- cached pages contain the expected authcacheFooter with "-1" for cache_render but display a "n/a (first request?)" for cache_render under Authcahce Debug --- with the latest dev in Firefox 3.5.7, Safari 4.0.4 (5531.21.10), and interestingly, *not* for Google Chrome 4.0.249.43 on Mac OS. In chrome, the cache_render information is populated as expected.

This suggests that the problem mentioned in #7 may be affecting us again. I tried to go back and look at that original fix but this wasn't distinct from the other issues addressed in that commit. I could follow any pointers for troubleshooting this further.

ezra-g’s picture

Version: 6.x-6.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
Jonah Ellison’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

authcacheFooter will always display cache_render as -1 in the HTML. It's filled by the Authcache JS by looking at a cookie sent with cached pages when debug mode is enabled. (The DOM should then show the populated value with the cache render time.)