+++ /dev/null
-I noticed when generating my wiki that all of my RSS feeds were
-getting regenerated even when I edited only a page that did not affect
-any feed.
-
-I found that the problem only occurs in the presence of a file that
-contains \[[inline pages="*"]].
-
-> How is this unexpected? By inlining _every_ page in the wiki, you're
-> making that page depend on every other page; any change to any page in
-> the wiki will result in the inlining page and its rss feed needing to be
-> updated to include the changed page.
-> --[[Joey]]
-
-Here's a short script for replicating the bug. Just cut and paste this
-to a shell, (it will only muck in a new /tmp/ikiwiki-test directory
-that it will create):
-
- cd /tmp
- mkdir ikiwiki-test; cd ikiwiki-test; mkdir src
- echo '\[[inline pages="blog/*"]]' > src/myblog.mdwn
- mkdir src/blog; echo "A blog entry" > src/blog/entry.mdwn
- echo 'use IkiWiki::Setup::Standard {
- srcdir => "src",
- destdir => "output",
- url => "http://example.com",
- templatedir => "/dev/null",
- underlaydir => "/dev/null",
- rss => 1,
- wrappers => [],
- verbose => 1,
- refresh => 1
- }' > setup
- ikiwiki --setup setup
- ls -l --time-style=full-iso output/myblog/index.rss
- echo "not a blog entry" > src/not-a-blog.mdwn
- ikiwiki --setup setup
- ls -l --time-style=full-iso output/myblog/index.rss
- echo '\[[inline pages="*"]]' > src/archives.mdwn
- ikiwiki --setup setup
- ls -l --time-style=full-iso output/myblog/index.rss
- echo "still not blogging" >> src/not-a-blog.mdwn
- ikiwiki --setup setup
- ls -l --time-style=full-iso output/myblog/index.rss
-
-Here's the tail of the output that I see for this command:
-
- $ echo "not a blog entry" > src/not-a-blog.mdwn
- $ ikiwiki --setup setup
- refreshing wiki..
- scanning not-a-blog.mdwn
- rendering not-a-blog.mdwn
- done
- $ ls -l --time-style=full-iso output/myblog/index.rss
- -rw-r--r-- 1 cworth cworth 459 2007-06-01 06:34:36.000000000 -0700 output/myblog/index.rss
- $ echo '\[[inline pages="*"]]' > src/archives.mdwn
- $ ikiwiki --setup setup
- refreshing wiki..
- scanning archives.mdwn
- rendering archives.mdwn
- done
- $ ls -l --time-style=full-iso output/myblog/index.rss
- -rw-r--r-- 1 cworth cworth 459 2007-06-01 06:34:37.000000000 -0700 output/myblog/index.rss
- $ echo "still not blogging" >> src/not-a-blog.mdwn
- $ ikiwiki --setup setup
- refreshing wiki..
- scanning not-a-blog.mdwn
- rendering not-a-blog.mdwn
- rendering archives.mdwn, which depends on not-a-blog
- done
- $ ls -l --time-style=full-iso output/myblog/index.rss
- -rw-r--r-- 1 cworth cworth 459 2007-06-01 06:34:38.000000000 -0700 output/myblog/index.rss
-
-It looks like the rendering of archives.mdwn is also silently
-generating myblog/index.rss.
-After editing a page `pagename`, ikiwiki redirects to `pagename/index.html?updated`. Ignoring for the moment that ?updated seems like a bad idea to begin with, this should at least not introduce /index.html into the URL.
\ No newline at end of file
+After editing a page `pagename`, ikiwiki redirects to `pagename/index.html?updated`. Ignoring for the moment that ?updated seems like a bad idea to begin with, this should at least not introduce /index.html into the URL.
+
+> The "?updated" works around caching issues with certain broken browsers,
+> web proxys, and/or webservers. These assume that since the "?" is there,
+> the page is not static, or is a different page, thus forcing the page to
+> be reloaded and the edited version seen. So no, not a bad idea, really.
+>
+> Removing the index.html would probably break this workaround.
+> http://foo/bar/?updated will redirect to http://foo/bar/index.html, and
+> said broken software will then display its old out of date cached
+> version.
+>
+> So, not changing this. [[tag done]]
+>
+> --[[Joey]]