[ic] Caching and session IDs

[David Christensen]

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 4:47 PM, Grant <emailgrant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> I'm tempted to enable some kind of server-side page caching but the
>>> session IDs appended to internal links on the first page of each
>>> session would be a problem.  Is it safe to disable session IDs on
>>> internal links these days?
>> 
>> Yeah, I think Cookies + JS is pretty much the norm these days, no matter what those curmudgeons among us would like. :-)
>> 
>> Here’s some info about caching in Interchange to consider:
>> 
>> http://blog.endpoint.com/2013/10/full-page-caching-in-interchange-5.html
>> 
>> Additionally, you’ll need to make sure you are only caching responses that are valid for everyone hitting this resource; you can’t just blindly do GET requests w/200 or 301.
> 
> 
> Thanks David.  Is this what I want:
> 
> ScratchDefault mv_no_session_id 1
> 
> Is that pretty standard in IC catalogs these days?

That sounds right; we tend to always turn the id off for our sites, should prob see about changing the default in “strap” catalog if it’s not already.

David
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