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I am a bit confused now - is it normal behavior that posting an anonymous comment on cached page invalidates ALL cached pages for whole site for current anonymous user? Beacouse that is exactly what I am experiencing now. Moreover, current anonymous user is not able to cache pages by visiting them in browser. Is it a bug or is it some sort of a cookie? Thank you for answers.

UPDATE1: I created fresh install, set up a few testing nodes with anonymous commenting enabled and it seems that after submitting comment, drupal adds a cookie. In response headers there shows no-cache on all pages.

UPDATE2: I tried @mikeytown's suggestion and tested out alternative database cache http://drupal.org/project/adbc and it turned out to work ok with anonymous comments. After posting a comment on a cached page - all other precached pages are served from database for current anonymous visitor. This is what I expected as default behavior from core drupal cache. As a sidenote - in addition to that I tested content refresh module http://drupal.org/project/content_refresh which flushes cache of the page immediately where comment is posted, which turned out to be working pretty good.

Next I tested submitting comments using ajax http://www.test.eotazky.sk/admin/config/content/ajax_comments . This solution created a session which disabled access to cached pages to current anonymous user. Clearing browser's cache helped.

I tested also other forms on cached pages like poll or closedquestion which use ajax to submit forms and it seems to me that all ajax submitted forms set a session that disable access to cached pages for current anonymous user.

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  • Do you have Boost module installed or caching mode set to Aggressive ?
    – AKS
    Feb 18, 2013 at 4:08
  • @AyeshK Caching is just enabled, it is drupal 7.
    – loparr
    Feb 18, 2013 at 10:06
  • @loparr So, what did you decide to use?
    – kalabro
    Feb 20, 2013 at 8:33
  • @kalabro I decided to use mikeytown2's suggestion - alternate cache, which answers my question. However some minor questions remain and hopefully someone can explain it.
    – loparr
    Feb 20, 2013 at 9:19

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You could give Alternative Database Cache a try. Set the minimum cache lifetime and you should see pages cached within the cache lifetime window not being cleared. Clearing the cache when a comment is saved is default behavior; look at the bottom of the comment_form_submit function if you wish to see the call to cache_clear_all.

As for the cookie, it is most likely being set because of calls to drupal_set_message; also noted is comment_form_submit calls user_cookie_save

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  • The answer could be greatly improved with a reason for why this module would be useful.
    – Letharion
    Feb 18, 2013 at 22:19
  • @mikeyintown2 Your advice helped with comments on cached pages. Please see updates to original question. As for the cookies - is it possible to prevent forms to create session which results in disabling acces to cached pages for anonymous user? I say disabling because all pages are not cleared from database.
    – loparr
    Feb 19, 2013 at 1:58

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