Re: Issues with mod_disk_cache and htcacheclean

2009-01-10 Thread Neil Gunton
Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group wrote: Can you try with the following additional patch and a clean cache? Afterwards there should only be very very few orphaned header files left.: Index: modules/cache/mod_disk_cache.c === ---

Re: Issues with mod_disk_cache and htcacheclean

2009-01-05 Thread Neil Gunton
Ruediger Pluem wrote: What information do your cookies contain? Are these session cookies that are individual to each client? In this case the usage of mod_disk_cache with Vary Cookies set would be bad. As these responses would be individual you couldn't reuse the results anyway for other

Issues with mod_disk_cache and htcacheclean

2009-01-04 Thread Neil Gunton
I posted this on the users list, but was advised to post it to dev as well, since it seemed relevant to developers. Hope that's ok... I am using Apache 2.2.9 on Linux AMD64, built from source. There is one server running two builds of Apache - a lightweight front-end caching reverse proxy

Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-05-05 Thread Neil Gunton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this fellow were to simply 'stuff' his Cookie into the 'extra text' part of the User-Agent: string and send out a Vary: User-Agent along with the response then it would actually work the way he expects it too. Thanks to Roy and Kevin for your insight. Sorry if this

Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-05-05 Thread Neil Gunton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bottom line: In order to do your 'Cookie' scheme and have it work with all major browsers you might have to give up on the idea that the responses can EVER be 'cached' locally by a browser... but now you also lose the ability to have it cached by ANYONE. There

Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-05-05 Thread Neil Gunton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MOST Proxy Cache Servers ( including ones that SAY they are HTTP/1.1 compliant ) do NOT handle Vary: and they will simple treat ANY response they get with a Vary: header of any kind exactly the way MSIE seems to. They will treat it as if it was Vary: * ( Vary: STAR )

Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-05-04 Thread Neil Gunton
Graham Leggett wrote: I would disagree - if a proxy on the net cached every variant of every page simply based on a cookie header, there would so many different variants of the same page in the cache that from a system resource perspective the cache might as well not be there. Cookies only

Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-05-04 Thread Neil Gunton
Graham Leggett wrote: There is already a mechanism for caching different variants of a page - simply encode the info into the URL. This is supported on all browsers and cannot be switched off through user preference (as cookies can). Because a mechanism already exists, there isn't much point

Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-05-03 Thread Neil Gunton
Graham Leggett wrote: Neil Gunton wrote: The problem now is that the browsers (IE and Mozilla at least) don't seem to differentiate requests based on cookies. I have tested requesting a page with a certain cookie (where the page has a sufficient expiration to warrant being cached

mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-04-24 Thread Neil Gunton
? Or, will this be included in either future versions of mod_proxy or the equivalent module in Apache 2.x? Any insights greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Neil Gunton

Re: mod_proxy distinguish cookies?

2004-04-24 Thread Neil Gunton
Neil Gunton wrote: Hi all, I apologise in advance if this is obvious or otherwise been answered elsewhere, but I can't seem to find any reference to it. I am using Apache 1.3.29 with mod_perl, on Linux 2.4. I am running mod_proxy as a caching reverse proxy front end, and mod_perl