[Catalyst] Capture page on server?

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:23:05AM +0800, Martin Ellison wrote:
> I actually want to save a static copy of the front page to improve load
> times. My fastcgi process sometimes disappears (I'm on shared hosting and I
> think they auto-cancel stale processes), and it takes a while for the
> process to be restarted, which impacts the first page load. Subsequent pages
> are faster but it's the first page that makes the impression on the user.
> The static plugin does not work, because that requires fastcgi to be
> running, and my app is too small for me to set up squid.
> 
> So I want to redirect the front page to a static page, but regenerate the
> static page, and also force the app to do something (so the server can
> restart the fastcgi process before the user requests any other page).

Catalyst::Plugin::PageCache ?

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