• I’ve noted with the latest official release of your plugin that different web browsers appear to be served with different cache files. I haven’t tested this on other computers to see if it’s more than a browser related problem and occurs per-computer.

    The issue I have with this is obviously that the system is over-caching the same page multiple times, which mitigates the advantages of caching, when it should only be doing this once and updating according to the timed settings or whether I add new posts etc.

    For example it’s 15:52 when I check the front page of my website and I noticed that the page views reported by different browsers is not in sync. After looking at the bottom of the source code I also see that different cache times and related files for the same page are also being called.

    Under IE9 the front page cache line reads:

    <!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.634 seconds. -->
    <!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2012-11-30 15:44:26 -->

    Under Firefox v16 the front page cache line reads:

    <!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.639 seconds. -->
    <!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2012-11-30 15:39:24 -->
    <!-- super cache -->

    Under Chrome the front page cache line reads:

    <!-- Dynamic page generated in 0.642 seconds. -->
    <!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2012-11-30 15:44:30 -->

    They use to all be loading from the same cached file and time. I consider this to be quite a critical bug or is it something I’ve done?

    I’ve conducted various tests and even from a fresh wipe it creates a new file for each web browser, which makes no sense to me.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

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  • Actually, many plugins I’ve come across have a poor code practice of generating different HTML depending on the User Agent string (this was pretty common [even for me] back in the days before you could rely on CSS for most degradation issues). Thus, the tendency will be for different cache files to be created for different browsers–always–unless you hack your wp-config to change the UA, which is a very disrecommended course of action…

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