Different cache policy for googlebot

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Dec 2 12:38:40 CET 2010


In message <0C561017-9A55-4CD9-9D66-B31AC7B0CBD6 at collaborativebusiness.co.uk>, 
David Turner writes:
>On 2 Dec 2010, at 10:33, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> You only need to slow it on cache misses ?
>
>The other way around. I don't mind it getting old data for a cache
>hit, but a cache miss should be serviced as required.

Hmm, I'm not sure I understand, but then again, I'm not a webmaster, I'm
just a coder :-)

Consider giving the google bot a longer req.grace than other clients ?

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