[Plugin: WP Super Cache] cache requests with query string $_GET parameters?

#RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
– i think, this will not be enough.

wp super cache should save such files.

i have made such thing, but you need to be server admin to do so:
make file, executable:
my is called aylandirow1.php , with this code:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
set_time_limit(0);
$fdin=fopen("php://stdin","r");
$fdout=fopen("php://stdout","w");
set_file_buffer($fdout,0);
$nini=array('/','?');
$nige=array('%2F','%39');//3f
while($i=fgets($fdin)){
	$o=str_replace($nini,$nige,$i);
	fputs($fdout,$o);
}
?>

then make rewrite rules like this, but modify for wordpress:

RewriteEngine On
	RewriteMap aylandirow1 prg:/var/www/saytlar/izlaw/aylandirow1.php
	RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (.+)
	RewriteRule /arhif/(....)/(..)/(..)/(.+) /var/www/saytlar/izlaw/arhif/$1/$2/$3/${aylandirow1:$4}\%39%0 [type=text/html]
	RewriteRule /arhif/(....)/(..)/(..)/(.+) /var/www/saytlar/izlaw/arhif/$1/$2/$3/${aylandirow1:$4} [type=text/html]

i have encoded “?” character with “%39” , because i had some problems with handling “?” character with rewrite rules. “%39” is “9”‘s code, but it is not used, because “9” is not encoded.
so, wp-super-cache need to be modified to be replacing “?” with “%39” or other similar way to work this way. for that ask donncha.

this code is used in a very little and simple search engine that i made 🙂 http://izlaw.tmf.org.ru/ to serve indexed pages, they are saved by search engine.

Hi all, Thanks for the updates and sharing your approaches. What’s provided sounds like something more than Super Cache is intended to offer. I will make sure to thoroughly test those approaches if I end up needing this feature.

Another thing that I have just noticed: even though I do not have anything like what’s been suggested here in place: just plain rewrite settings, I see that page (not post) URLs with GET parameters are actually being cached by Super Cache because the timestamp exists in the source code: “Dynamic page generated in 0.402 seconds”… “Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2011-03-07…” – How did this happen without the additional rewrite rules? Does Super Cache behave differently for pages and posts?

i should add… i tried doing this with w3 total cache and it is simply not supported. i made a post here and got no response (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-varying-query-string-variables-wildcard)

hopefully this is possible with wp super cache!

hey tmuka,

sounds great man! it would be a great addition to the plugin code… maybe you can talk to Donncha O Caoimh to add it in 🙂

It throws them away and treats the request as if it didn’t have them, serving or caching as necessary.

just want to make sure i am understanding your mod version correctly:

step 1) someone comes to the site with http://www.domain.com/page1?tracking=chrome&tracking2=xyz

step 2) modded version of plugin throws the query string away and removes them?

step 3) page is served as REGARDLESS of query strings parameters

my questions:

1) where and when does the parsing with javascript occur?
2) can the modded version simply ignore the query string and serve the page, WITHOUT removing the query string?

thank you so much!!!