Last modified: 2013-11-20 20:08:47 UTC
Both Squid and Varnish support edge side includes, but support needs to be added to MediaWiki in order for us to take advantage of this. If implemented, MediaWiki could send out sections of a page like so: <esi:include src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralNotice?action=gimmestuff" onerror="continue"/> ...and they would be cached separately from the rest of the page. This would open up a lot of new feature and optimization possibilities for us. Request for Comment page can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Partial_page_caching
Weird, I thought there was already a bug for this open
It would be good to abstract the fragment caching / retrieval mechanism so that the decision whether to handle fragments in PHP, the edge or the client is independent of the fragment definition. The less detail knowledge about the (complex) cache infrastructure is needed to use it, the better.
