Re: wiki page not updating

On 09/12/2012 04:18 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> Excerpts from Jaime Casanova's message of mar sep 11 23:05:20 -0300 2012:
>>> I tried to edit http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Events to add PgDay
>>> Ecuador 2012 but i can only see the modification when i'm logged in.
>>> When i logout i see the previous version of the page.
>>>
>>> The same happened when editing
>>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PGDay_Ecuador_2012 to add information
>>> about the event.
>
>> I see both edits just fine.
>
> FWIW, I've seen this type of behavior repeatedly. I think the wiki
> webserver is allowing the browser to cache the old copy of the page.
> If you don't have it in cache to start with, or after the cache copy has
> expired, you won't see any inconsistency.
>
> There was a thread about this awhile back which suggested that the
> problem was http: vs https:, ie if you first visit a page non-secured,
> and then log in, the server switches you to https: but the browser
> doesn't realize that's the same as the http: page. I tried to address
> that by changing all my wiki bookmarks to https:, but I think I've still
> seen the behavior since then.

hmm not sure I fully believe in that theory but maybe we should just
make the wiki full https and be done with it...

Stefan