caching

Will the browser cache a CSS background image if it's not used?

When you have two rules like this: .foo { background-image: url(foo.gif); } .foo { background-image: url(bar.gif); } and have <div class='foo'>Foobar</div> Will your browser cache both, or just the one actually getting displayed (bar.gif in this case)? Is this true in all setups? (the rules being in different files, !important ...

Cache per request in grails

I want to cache an dto, that I get consuming an api, in the whole request. I try to access the request variable in a service, but it don't work. Also I had tried to create a service with request scope but it has a error in bean creation stage in spring. Some thing like this: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-4148 Can you give me ...

Dynamically created stylesheets not (always) updating, causing style flickering

Hey all, I have a php script that loads a CSS stylesheet, changes the color attribute and then creates a new CSS file with the new color and links it to the page. When I hit refresh it sometimes updates to reflect the changes, sometimes it doesn't. At first I thought it was the cache, so I disabled caching in Safari but its still happe...

WCF Service: ASP.NET Cache or SQL

I'm currently developing a WCF REST Web Service that will be running on Microsoft Azure. To limit the number of requests per IP address to prevent abuse, I currently store the IP and timeout using the ASP.NET Cache. This method works great but since muliple VM instances with Azure don't share a single cache, the requests could be split ...

Document.write being cached

I am using a script before page load to write some html into my page with doucment.write now this gets cached like crazy only a hard refresh seems to update it. Now before everyone goes "OMG DONT USE DOCUMNNT.WRIT" I will be getting rid of it but for the moment I need a quick fix. So is there a way I can force this script to update eve...

Force page load from cache

Hi All, In our web application,in Mozilla Firefox, whenever the user clicks on back button, it loads the previous page from cache (server side methods are not called). But in IE it calls the server side methods. Is it possible to force the page load from cache when the user clicks on Back or Forward button of the browser? Can someone p...

ASP.NET and distributed caching in more than one web server

I need distributed cache to be used in more than one web server. I've tried a file based cache dependency, but it doesn't work in UNC path. I think .NET can not monitor the files on the UNC path. I know that Microsoft has presented a new feature in Velocity. But, is there any other solution (like memcache in PHP)? ...

jQuery ajax caching: false works only in firefox

I develop a simple overlay to preview image in full size. I use "cache: false" to prevent caching. The code is simple: $.ajax({ url: urlFull, cache: false, success: function(html){ // display image }, error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown ) { // display error } }); The problem is - Whe...

Cake PHP Cache helper, cacheAction

Hello, I have the following in my controller: var $cacheAction = array( 'view/' => 432000, 'pricelist/'=>'100000', 'latest/' => '100000'); That is to cache the views for 5 days. I also enabled cache in core.php and included the cache helper in my controller. The cache files are created correctly in...

CakePHP - Caching HABTM while (un)publishing children

Hi, I'm caching an HABTM relation in CakePHP. Some children (Showcases) of the root model (Client) get updated once in a while because they get published or unpublished. That means that the Cached query should expire. But... it doesn't. It only expires when one of the children is added or removed. How do I properly make the update actio...

Image handler page...

Hi all, I created an image handler page which retrieves the physical path of an image on the local machine and then using filestream, resizes and displays it - using a integer (record id) passed as querystring. What is happening is that, when the routine in pageload cannot find an image relating to the record id, it displays random ima...

Cache a whole website on an iPhone

Is it possible to cache a whole website (with all the images, styles etc), save it and display in a UIWebView offline later? If it is possible, how can I do it? Thanks in advance! ...

iPhone - How to preload a local file in a UIWebView?

Is it possible to preload content of a local file with embedded images for a UIWebView? This is how I'm loading the data inside the UIWebView: NSString *urlString = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"info" ofType:@"html"]; NSString *htmlContent = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:urlString encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:ni...

How to use the Java download cache with webstart?

My Java Webstart application download some large resource files. I use: URL url = new URL( "http://....." ); URLConnection uc = url.openConnection(); uc.setUseCaches( true ); uc.getInputStream(); But on the next start the resources are downloaded again. The files occur also not in the resources list of the temporary Internet files. I...

Dynamic Website Navigation Using Zend Framework - XML vs MySQL

I am about to create a menu for a project of mine, and I need to make a dynamic navigation. In my Admin back end, I will create a form for URI entry, so that the admins can create links and define the parent of the link and their ordering in relation to other links in the parent. I will be doing this with a MySQL database. The question ...

Issue Caching Resultsets using PHP and APC on Windows

Hi, Just for the record, I'm using Windows Vista with XAMPP (PHP 5.3.1). I'm trying to use APC to cache a database result. I did a simple APC test on string variables and it seems to work ok. However, when I try to do the same thing with a database result resource, I get a complaint the data in the cache 'is not a valid MySQL result re...

Whats the mechanism of data caching in web?

I used to think that cache is browser driven and browser dont request the same file again if they think data is being repeated but reading some text on web, I realize that it is website that tell browser for which files should be not requested twice. Can anyone clarify me on this? ...

query results are not found in cache

Env: JBoss 5.1, ehcache 2.1.0, hibernate 3.3.x, seam 2.2.0 ehcache.xml (2.1.0 version) contains the following lines, but my query results are not found in cache. Am I supposed to set a cache region for each of the queries which are fired. What am I missing here? <!-- Cache configuration --> <cache name="org.hibernate.cache.UpdateTimest...

How can one detect changes in a directory across program executions?

I am making a protocol, client and server which provide file transfer functionality similar to FTP (among other features). One difference between my protocol and FTP is that I would like to store a copy of the remote server's directory structure in a local cache. The server will only be running on Windows (written in C++) so any applic...

cache behaviour on redundant writes

Edit - I guess the question I asked was too long so I'm making it very specific. Question: If a memory location is in the L1 cache and not marked dirty. Suppose it has a value X. What happens if you try to write X to the same location? Is there any CPU that would see that such a write is redundant and skip it? For example is there an o...