Thanks for answering Barry. On a side note, I confirm that App Engine caching should behave like any regular HTTP/1.1 proxy if you mark your requests with the appropriate headers.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Barry Hunter <[email protected]> wrote: > Use > > Cache-Control: private > > http://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/cc-private.html > > The Google Proxy (and any other proxy along the line for that matter!) > shouldnt cache it. > > > (But it can still be cached in the users 'private' cache. Which I > persume is why you want to set an expiry at all) > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Ludvig Ericson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> my case is that I have data that is fine if it's stale for some >> people, but I would of course not want everybody to have equally stale >> data. >> >> This becomes a problem however, for of course I use the appointed HTTP >> caching headers per RFC 2616, section 13. To cut it briefly, I always >> set the expiry to tomorrow 00:00 because this is an acceptable trade- >> off for our purposes. >> >> When we rolled this out, everybody would be getting stale data >> however! It seemed the Google Frontend servers simply did not >> revalidate, and why should they? After all, the headers are saying >> it's OK until tomorrow. >> >> So basically I *do want* this behavior, but I *do not want* it for the >> scope that a reverse proxy provides - Google's got me by the balls >> here, pretty much. How do I tell the GFE not to be a reverse caching >> proxy? >> >> Sincerely >> -Ludvig Ericson, http://sendapatch.se/ >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- Johan Euphrosine (proppy) Developer Programs Engineer Google Developer Relations -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
