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I am currently building a site and this is definitely an experience that I can learn from. I am wondering, why was the homepage not being cached?

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There was a cookie set for CSRF protection and the headers specify that content should not be cached if there is a cookie (or more precisely - the cached content includes the cookie as a cache key, so each request with a different cookie gets a cache-miss).

Slightly different.

"Note that in 0.8.44 behaviour was changed to something considered more natural. As of 0.8.44 nginx no longer caches responses with Set-Cookie header and doesn't strip this header with cache turned on (unless you instruct it to do so with proxy_hide_header and proxy_ignore_headers). "

http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,126312,126316#msg-126316

Thanks for the clarification.

How would you circumvent this? I'm thinking that disabling CSRF is probably a bad idea. Maybe use AJAX to get the CSRF token after page load?

Developer here, since we had a click to open form at the time, we loaded the CSRF via AJAX. However that does not seem to be a good idea if we need it to work asap (and without javascript). I would look at something like SSI to put in the CSRF token to a cached page.

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