I am planning to create an SSR site, but given the lack of SSR packages for canisters and the nominal 1 sec response cache at the boundary nodes even with a proprietary implementation, it seems to be difficult at this time to create it fully on-chain. I’m considering one of the following; Buildin…

It’s doable, both with v1 and v2, but it may be difficult depending on your response time and security requirements. Just FYI: there’s already discussions happening about deprecating v1, so please go with v2 if you do anything custom No matter what you do, you probably have to create your own canis…

As far as I know, SSR is not supported. Dynamic URLs are also not supported as every route needs to be certified. I prefer using query parameters. The above issues might be possible to resolve with certification v2 (?), but I’m really not sure about it and not aware of any activities in that direct…

Dynamic URLs are also not supported as every route needs to be certified. I did not grasp this. Are routes certified at deployment? That would make SSR, etc. impossible. Hoping for future support. Since it is impractical for this service to perform SSG for all routes, the method to be taken is …

[image] wiyota: I did not grasp this. Are routes certified at deployment? Yes. At least with certification v1, at build time routes need to be known before uploading static files to the chain. Not sure with certification v2, maybe @Vivienne can confirm. [image] wiyota: OGP (Open Graph p…

Unless Severin brings new light on this, which would probably still implies that you would have to develop your own canister to perform SSR on chain, I would said that building a client side app (with or without pre-rendering) is a safe path. Well, just to be sure, is it possible to build proprie…

[image] wiyota: For example, by the basic method of returning text/html according to path for http_request query? Yes that’s how it already works. You can for sure definitely serve static files -HTML, JS, CSS, images etc. whatever files - for a path. These files need to be build (locally or …

Yes that’s how it already works. You can for sure definitely serve static files -HTML, JS, CSS, images etc. whatever files - for a path. I see, that’s how asset canisters work. When an url is requested, the corresponding file is served. One to one without additional “server” processing and modi…

Thanks for the feedback, Severin. It’s filled with valuable information! For context, my understanding of SSR is about responding to an HTTP request with an HTML file that is generated on the server side, containing dynamic data computed on the server side, and serving it as quickly as possible. Th…

Yes, if you’re not willing to wait for 2 seconds then it’s impossible with v1 since it doesn’t allow certain paths to be excluded

Peter and Severin, thank you for all your advice! I will review the references and check Severin and Kyle’s code. It may be possible to get sufficient availability by using un-certified SSR pages only for the parts where security is not critical. Integrating IC into SSR with existing frameworks do…

Hello everyone, I’m working with clients who want to move their site to the Internet Computer, and I was wondering if there’s been any progress on SSR (server-side rendering) since the last update a year ago. It’s really important for SEO, so any updates would be great to know! Thanks!

Appropriate server-side rendering (or OGP generation per URL)

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