uncached items in a cached document

I’m not sure of how this caching works still, and was hoping someone can shed some light.


I have a document that has caching enabled, and most of the content is static except for a small [!script!]
does that mean that the script is effectively canceling the whole caching operation, or does a part of the document still get cached ?

and if I have this script on every page, is it even worth it to be caching at all?

Quote from: daspoda at Mar 05, 2010, 10:40 PM

I’m not sure of how this caching works still, and was hoping someone can shed some light.


I have a document that has caching enabled, and most of the content is static except for a small [!script!]
does that mean that the script is effectively canceling the whole caching operation, or does a part of the document still get cached ?

and if I have this script on every page, is it even worth it to be caching at all?

The document is cached, but with the snippet tag (unprocessed) still in it. MODx will only have to process the snippet tag after getting the page from the cache so it’s definitely worth it.

Of course, if the snippet always produces the same output, it should be cached as well.

Thanks BobRay,

That snippet is there to give a log in/out depending on whether the user is logged in or not.

I’m also seeing everything refresh on IE every time I load a page, even when the content is the same. Is there anything I can do about that?

Quote from: daspoda at Mar 06, 2010, 04:13 PM

Thanks BobRay,

That snippet is there to give a log in/out depending on whether the user is logged in or not.

I’m also seeing everything refresh on IE every time I load a page, even when the content is the same. Is there anything I can do about that?

It might be the IE configuration.

Thanks for the reply, I did suspect that that was the culprit and checked before posting.
I started another topic regarding this issue only.
I’ve reset all my setting for IE7 and it still does it
I’ve noticed that IE works fine with html sites, but tries to reload the content for all my modx sites.
I’ve also tried some other people’s sites like http://prague-holiday-apartment.com/ that’s featured on the main site, and it does it there too.

I can see the content blink on IE8, but it’s nowhere near as bad as IE7 and I can’t test on IE6, but think it might be similar.

Quote from: daspoda at Mar 07, 2010, 12:32 AM

Thanks for the reply, I did suspect that that was the culprit and checked before posting.
I started another topic regarding this issue only.
I’ve reset all my setting for IE7 and it still does it
I’ve noticed that IE works fine with html sites, but tries to reload the content for all my modx sites.
I’ve also tried some other people’s sites like http://prague-holiday-apartment.com/ that’s featured on the main site, and it does it there too.

I can see the content blink on IE8, but it’s nowhere near as bad as IE7 and I can’t test on IE6, but think it might be similar.

Definitely worth tracking down.

I went through all the settings again, and found that I did set it to check for newer versions automatically, which wasn’t reset in my last sweep.


This fixes it, but Is there something being injected to the headers where the page thinks it is new perhaps? I still wonder why this wasn’t an issue for the static html pages, that IE was also checking to see if they changed.