The logo of the about page is never shown although it is displayed on all other pages

[john at keeping.me.uk (John Keeping)]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 04:24:15PM +0200, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
> Something strange happened.
> I played with some settings to find a workaround, and the issue vanished
> suddenly:
> I was careful about the a 'cache-about-ttl=1' parameter to make sure the
> cache was not involved in this.
> I refreshed the about page several times during a few mins, but the issue
> was still there.
> I added a 'homepage=https://git.sdxlive.com/<repository_name>/about' in the
> cgitrc file of all the repos  and after some time (more than 1 mn), the
> issue was gone.

This sounds like a cache issue somewhere, whether that's CGit or your
browser or somewhere in between.  If the cache TTL was originally
longer, then that will have been included in the HTTP Expires header on
earlier results so it's possible that the older response was still
cached based on the previous TTL.

> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:50 AM John Keeping <john at keeping.me.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 09:41:44AM +0200, jean-christophe manciot wrote:
> > > I use *v1.2.1* with the patch regarding the table of contents
> > > <
> > https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/diff/filters/html-converters/md2html?h=ch/anchorlinks&id=42e70dcbe84e128ba23a25918e3d5d9aac656dc6
> > >
> > >  .
> > > I have the following setup:
> > > /etc/cgitrc:
> > > logo=/cgit-css/cgit.png
> > >
> > > Each repo has its own cgitrc, for instance:
> > > logo=https://git.sdxlive.com/PPA/plain/logo.png
> > > logo-link=https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/index.html
> > >
> > > The logo is displayed correctly on all pages (summary, refs, log, ...)
> > > except on the about page where I get:
> >
> > Can you share a public URL demonstrating the problem?
> >
> > The code for outputting the page header (including the logo) is shared
> > for all pages so I can't see why it would output a broken link just on
> > the about page.
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jean-Christophe