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I have to say that https://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi https://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi looks like a great site! It is all public, and when you
by pkal 1y ago
I have to say that https://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi https://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi looks like a great site! It is all public, and when you open a category (a static site), all the information appears all at once and you can Ctrl-F for keywords. It might not solve that "unknown unknown" problem that the author mentions, but it is certainly much preferable to the solution that our university used (https://www.his.de/hisinone https://www.his.de/hisinone; one example: all courses are displayed in a tree and if you click to unfold a node, the server generates verbose HTML and sends it to the client. This takes at least 10 seconds on good days).
- ndriscoll 1y agoYeah literally the only thing they need to do to fix it is get rid of the no-cache and Connection: close headers. Maybe make an "All" page for better CTRL-F? Surely their catalog doesn't change more than once per minute and could have some level of caching (at least with revalidation)? Keep-alive would cut out ~150 ms of page load time and letting at least something like nginx cache it seems like it would cut out another ~150 ms.