# [offtopic] GitHub CI webpage caching is horrible... 2 messages from 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-22. Participants: Junio C Hamano, Kaartic Sivaraam. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/66344 ## Junio C Hamano, 2026-09-18 05:20 Subject: [offtopic] GitHub CI webpage caching is horrible... Message-ID: ``` I usually keep the URL https://github.com/git/git/actions/workflows/main.yml?query=event%3Apush+actor%3Agitster open in one of my browser tabs, but this request interacts badly with the web cache they use. Depending on the phase of the moon, I get a stale cached page whose latest entry is from early August! As a workaround, I could append '&nonce=$random_number' to the end of the URL, but I should not have to do that. Grumble... ``` ## Kaartic Sivaraam, 2026-09-22 08:28 Subject: Re: [offtopic] GitHub CI webpage caching is horrible... Message-ID: <7da4b657-b6f3-4ee9-a49a-459b77088f55@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: ``` On 9/18/26 10:50, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I usually keep the URL > > https://github.com/git/git/actions/workflows/main.yml?query=event%3Apush+actor%3Agitster > > open in one of my browser tabs, but this request interacts badly > with the web cache they use. Depending on the phase of the moon, I > get a stale cached page whose latest entry is from early August! > > As a workaround, I could append '&nonce=$random_number' to the end > of the URL, but I should not have to do that. > It might be worth putting a word here: https://help.github.com/support/contact With Taylor moving on from GitHub, I'm not quite sure who if this would relayed to GitHub by someone. So, the GitHub support page is a better place to complain so that they'll hopefully fix it some day :-) -- Sivaraam ```