OWA and slow page refresh

In our web application we have built a common javascript library which contains hundreds of routines from building interfaces validation, formatting etc totals about 150k.

This is referenced on every page weather needed or not in a script tag in the header. When we ran the app under IIS 4.0 this is no problem as what happens is the script lib gets cached and is actually only downloaded once. This enable us to have very complex forms that are only a few K in size and download lightning fast.

We just converted this to run under the Oracle web listener and we have found that everytime the page is refreshed the whole lib get downloaded and due to its size performance sucks. I tried everything I could think of but it seems to have no effect. As a kludge I tried even referencing the library as being on another web server which was running IIS and guess what... once again it got cached and we had superb performance.. ie in this last case the html page comes from oracle but the script tag refers to a file on another server.

Does anyone know what is going on here and how to get this working so we can have the lib on the oracle server and not have to keep another server running just to serve up one small library.

Rob Received on Sat Mar 20 1999 - 09:09:24 CST