[development] Static Page Caching

[Moshe Weitzman]

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/jeremy/filecache/?hideattic=0

would be great if you reimplemented this in modern drupal and submitted 
for core review.

-moshe

Mike Gifford wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> We've worked with jpcache in the past to produce static page caching  
> for dynamic sites.  We'd like to see the ability to create and edit  
> pages with drupal that get saved as good old fashioned html files.
> 
> Perhaps this would happen on a daily basis, perhaps only under severe  
> load, perhaps only for paths with a .html extension, however not all  
> drupal content needs to be loaded from drupal all of the time.   
> Throttle is nice.  The page caching is a good step in the right  
> direction too..  But I'd like to cache an entire page so that php  isn't 
> even loaded at all to deliver the page.
> 
> So, I'd just like to know what attempts have been done to do this in  
> the past (if any), and what problems they had (so that hopefully we  
> don't repeat the same ones).
> 
> We've investigated this for other CMS's, but not for Drupal.
> 
> Mike
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