Limelight recieved an update

Posted by Phil on May 28, 2008 under Web Development, Websphere Commerce | Be the First to Comment

Today I had to change out some of our cached content, and wouldn’t you know it, limelight has upgraded their website (it sure looks nice, but now requests take 10-30 minutes instead of 45 seconds ).  Anyway, I figured that I would go ahead and make an update post with the instructions on how to clear an image/page.

1 – To use limelight, you still go to the same place, http://reports.llnw.com/. You’ll probably notice that the login page looks much nicer than before, and we still use the same username/pass to get in, so if you forgot what it is then check with Ninja, Brett, Brandon, Brett/Burt, or me.

2 – When you log in, you get dumped at this empty page… click on “Tools” in the upper right corner of the screen.

3 – And here is our purge list.  Much nicer to look at, and it’s been ajax’d!  You can sort through requests (although there are not many listed right now ) but more importantly, you can click on the tiny “Add Request” link on the upper right side (next to the ‘Search’ box).

4 – The submit is pretty self explanitory, although make sure that you click the drop-down menu on the top left and pick a “ShortName”, if you don’t you’ll just get errors when you try to submit your purge request.  After you have picked a name, type in the url you want cleared (you can either use the limelight address (images.whatever.com) or the standard 3dubs (www.whatever.com).   Then if you want a confirmation email fill out the bottom form, otherwise click on the “Submit Request” button.  You’ll then hit a re-direct that dumps you back at the reports page.

5 – Wait 10 – 40 minutes… seriously… I’m not kidding, and if you think I am, check out those request times in the screen shot (the requested vs. completed columns).