gnosygnu
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4 years ago In xowa app noticed that when I go back to previous page via back button, it reloads, which is slow, at least for wikitext files. Can you enable some memory cache, at least few MB or for few articles (pages) to speed this up?
XOWA does do some caching but not at the page-level (template-level). I tried now, and it's fairly quick. Can you try these steps and see if they work for you?
- Go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth
- Wait for page to load
- Click on the
planetlink in the first line - Press the green back arrow button in the menu bar -> Earth article is shown without any load time
If there is a delay, how long is it?
Luckily I noticed when I use Firefox, even tough cache is nowhere defined in response headers, it still caches in memory, so going forward and back is fast. Yes, even in case of wikitext files. But looks like it only caches few last pages in memory only because cache is not defined.
Yeah, Firefox ultimately relies on the same cache implementation as XOWA app. Whatever we figure out for XOWA app should handle Firefox as well
But what I would like in Firefox is to have visited links of xowa in purple and underlined, just like in normal wikipedia. This was possible in kiwix. Maybe they are not colored and underlined because there is no any cache headers? So I can follow what I read or even what I downloaded (what I read while I was online and allowed internet access and retreival in xowa).
XOWA HTTP Server doesn't handle visited links. XOWA app does though. I could look into this, but it will take some time.
Kiwix enabled cache for all files, so I noticed their server is fast. Can you enable cache for all non-html files, and optionally for all files? It's only few HTTP response headers that needs to be done, at least for server/web browsers. This would speed up xowa drastically!
XOWA HTTP server doesn't use the cache headers. It does try to cache stuff like files, but it limits it to 75 MB. See home/wiki/Special:XowaCfg?grp=xowa.files.general
And sorry for mentioning that issue below, that is wrong, don't know how to remove it.
Yup, no worries
ghost
In xowa app noticed that when I go back to previous page via back button, it reloads, which is slow, at least for wikitext files. Can you enable some memory cache, at least few MB or for few articles (pages) to speed this up? Luckily I noticed when I use Firefox, even tough cache is nowhere defined in response headers, it still caches in memory, so going forward and back is fast. Yes, even in case of wikitext files. But looks like it only caches few last pages in memory only because cache is not defined. But what I would like in Firefox is to have visited links of xowa in purple and underlined, just like in normal wikipedia. This was possible in kiwix. Maybe they are not colored and underlined because there is no any cache headers? So I can follow what I read or even what I downloaded (what I read while I was online and allowed internet access and retreival in xowa). Kiwix enabled cache for all files, so I noticed their server is fast. Can you enable cache for all non-html files, and optionally for all files? It's only few HTTP response headers that needs to be done, at least for server/web browsers. This would speed up xowa drastically!
And sorry for mentioning that issue below, that is wrong, don't know how to remove it.