Vary Episerver cache by all querystring parameters
I had a Episerver CMS 5 R2 project where there was a lot of templates lifted in from an older solution. It was very querystring intensive so I needed to get away from specifying each querystring-parameter in the httpCacheVaryByParams setting and still enjoy public caching.
Here's how to do it:
While testing I noticed that httpCacheVaryByCustom need to have something different from the default value and httpCacheVaryByParams need to have a dummy value as well. So specifying the following in the siteSettings section of Web.config does the trick:
httpCacheExpiration="0:1:0"
httpCacheability="Public"
httpCacheVaryByCustom="my-custom-string"
httpCacheVaryByParams="needs-a-value-but-not-used"
Then in Global.asax.cs, override GetVaryByCustomString and return RawUrl. This will make the caching routine treat for example /my-list/?page=1 and /my-list/?page=2 as two different documents.
public override string GetVaryByCustomString(HttpContext context, string custom)
{
return context.Request.RawUrl;
}
Be sure to be logged out and don't run site on a http://localhost URL when testing your implementation.
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