Last modified: 2014-03-24 01:35:10 UTC
On Windows XP SP2: on http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Marketing The first sentence of the "Criticism of MLM" section in Firefox 2.0.0.4 reads: "The MLM model does not guarantee the success of any individual involved in this model. The success will depend primarily on amount of work done by the individual and is not a good model for mediocre persons." In Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180, this sentence is completely missing. It does not even appear in the source code.
Works for me. Most likely, Internet Explorer has cached an older version of the page; try clearing your browser cache and see if the problem persists.
Actually, I've got that the wrong way round; since the text is no longer in the article, it's Firefox that has cached an older version.
I had definitely never visited this page before. I tried it on another platform and it did the same.
Can't reproduce.
If accessing (with Firefox) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Marketing which is a redirect to [[w:Multi-level marketing]], i get "page last modified 23:03, 4 June 2007", but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_marketing "last modified 20:38, 6 June 2007". GET /wiki/Network_Marketing HTTP/1.1 .... If-Modified-Since: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:03:33 GMT HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 00:16:10 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Last-Modified: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:03:33 GMT Age: 161466 X-Cache: HIT from knsq1.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from knsq1.knams.wikimedia.org:3128 X-Cache: MISS from knsq5.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from knsq5.knams.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 knsq1.knams.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE12), 1.0 knsq5.knams.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE12) Connection: keep-alive After a Ctrl+F5 the right version is provided and: HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:14:31 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Last-Modified: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 20:38:38 GMT Age: 68 X-Cache: HIT from knsq1.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from knsq1.knams.wikimedia.org:3128 X-Cache: MISS from knsq7.knams.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from knsq7.knams.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 knsq1.knams.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE12), 1.0 knsq7.knams.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE12) Connection: keep-alive
I'm seeing this problem as well. In my case, when I requested the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorb (which redirects to Zorbing), the first sentence I saw was "Zorbing is a recreational activity developed in the 1990s ..." which is over 24 hours old. I'm using IE 7 on Windows XP SP2. I cleared my browser cache and was still able to reproduce the problem. Here's the HTTP exchange: GET /wiki/Zorb HTTP/1.1 Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, */* Accept-Language: en-us UA-CPU: x86 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Host: en.wikipedia.org Connection: Keep-Alive HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:50:15 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.1.4 Content-Language: en Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 18:19:07 GMT Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 7686 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Age: 131313 X-Cache: HIT from sq34.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from sq34.wikimedia.org:3128 X-Cache: MISS from sq34.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from sq34.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 sq34.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE13), 1.0 sq34.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE13) Connection: keep-alive I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the "Date:" in the response isn't even correct. It's a couple days old. I did a Ctrl+F5 and the problem was fixed. Here's the exchange (Ctrl+F5 seems to add "Cache-Control: no-cache" to the request): GET /wiki/Zorb HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en-us UA-CPU: x86 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Host: en.wikipedia.org Connection: Keep-Alive Cache-Control: no-cache HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:22:22 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.1 Content-Language: en Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate Last-Modified: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:16:50 GMT Content-Encoding: gzip Content-Length: 7591 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 X-Cache: MISS from sq34.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from sq34.wikimedia.org:3128 X-Cache: MISS from sq33.wikimedia.org X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from sq33.wikimedia.org:80 Via: 1.0 sq34.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE13), 1.0 sq33.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE13) Connection: keep-alive And now the "Date:" is correct and "Last-Modified" seems to represent the last edit, and everything is good... It looks like every time the "Zorbing" page gets updated, I keep getting stale results at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorb (which redirects to "Zorbing") until I press Ctrl+F5.
Oh. Also note that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorbing always gives me the latest version of the page, even when http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorb doesn't.
When you edit a page, the server send a message to the squids asking them to discard their copy. Seems it's not being done for pages redirected to it.
See also bug 24575 ???
wasn't updated for a long time and I failed to reproduce. works for me.
Did you edit the page first? It typically happens after an edit. And it also has seemed to be different if logged in as registered user.
(In reply to comment #11) > Did you edit the page first? It typically happens after an edit. Well that is typically the point where pages become stale. > And it also > has seemed to be different if logged in as registered user. Well given this bug is about squid cache, which is totally bypassed by logged in users, this is to be expected. ---- Ost316: Has this been specificly happening to you in the near term (like in the last month), otherwise I think this bug should be closed. (In all probability, since 2007 we have probably had multiple instances of squid purging being broken then fixed again)
I don't often browse or edit logged out, but it definitely has been since 2009 that I last saw the error. And it was more than just a few minutes old. It seems to be a bug that isn't always easily repeatable. The last reference I can remember was in 2011: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Video_games/Archive_87#The_shortcut_displays_an_older_version_of_this_page Perhaps it has been fixed since then, but it would be nice to have more of a reason than just it not being repeated.
Well squid purges are handled via UDP, which is an unreliable protocol. No checks are done to see that the purge packet actually arrived to the destination, so its entirely possible for pages to easily start to fail to purge if Wikimedia's internal network gets overloaded.
Is there anything actionable here?
We have since improved monitoring of purging, its quite possible this no longer happening (they still use udp which is unreliable, but packet loss is generally quite low from what i understand.). Anyhow if people are still experiancing this speak up. Ive heard some people talk about changing the udp to something fancier, which prevent packet loss being an issue. I think there was a discussion on an rfc somewhere. Anyhow a lot of that is beyond my knowladge
