Hello Nalaka,
As for the OutputCache of ASP.NET page, when you specify the
"VaryByCustom=browser", that means the page's output content will be cached
based on the client-side web request's browser header information(this is
usually stored in useragent http header).
And for your scenario, if you have the following cache setting in page:
<%@ OutputCache Location="server" Duration="300" VaryByParam="none"
VaryByCustom="browser" %>
the page will be cached according to the two flag:
** duration="300"
** VaryByCustom="browser"
So when you use IE to visit the page(no local or remote machine), the
output result will be cached and only after 300 seconds will the cache be
invalid. And if you use another browser(e.g firefox) to visit the page,
the server-side will generate another cache versino of this page, and all
seqential requests from other machine using firefox(same version) will will
get the same cached output (until it expires after 300 seconds).
I've tested this through the following test page:
================
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"
CodeFile="OutputCachePage.aspx.cs" Inherits="Cache_OutputCachePage"
%>
<%@ OutputCache Location="server" Duration="300" VaryByParam="none"
VaryByCustom="browser" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
===============
=========code behind=========
public partial class Cache_OutputCachePage : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Response.Write("<br/>Datetime: " + DateTime.UtcNow.ToString());
}
}
================
As for the "it stopped caching pages", what's the detailed behavior? Do you
mean no matter you use different browser not not, it will always output new
updated content each time you send reqeust to the page(refresh the browser)?
Please feel free to let me know if you have anything unclear.
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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