Re: Conditional GET (was Re: caching using ETags to vary the content)

2008-11-13 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ryan Tomayko writes: >On 11/12/08 3:19 AM, Ricardo Newbery wrote: >Right. Sorry about the ambiguity in my original message. I'm asking >specifically about Varnish using If-Modified-Since/If-None-Match to >revalidate a stale cache entry with the backend. > >Can anyon

Re: Conditional GET (was Re: caching using ETags to vary the content)

2008-11-12 Thread Ryan Tomayko
On 11/12/08 3:19 AM, Ricardo Newbery wrote: > Unless this has changed with 2.0, varnish will *respond* to if- > modified-since (IMS) with a 304 response if there is cached entry that > fails this condition, but varnish will neither *pass* the IMS header > to the backend (unless you customize t

Re: Conditional GET (was Re: caching using ETags to vary the content)

2008-11-12 Thread Ricardo Newbery
On Nov 4, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Miles wrote: > Ryan Tomayko wrote: >> On 11/4/08 12:51 PM, Miles wrote: >>> I know varnish doesn't do If-None-Match, but I don't think that is a >>> problem in this scheme. >> >> I'm curious to understand why Varnish doesn't do validation / >> conditional GET. >> Has

Re: Conditional GET (was Re: caching using ETags to vary the content)

2008-11-12 Thread Ryan Tomayko
On 11/4/08 2:19 PM, Miles wrote: > AFAIK varnish does do if-modified-since, just not if-none-match Oh, nice. Is this new in 2.0? Ryan ___ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-m

Re: Conditional GET (was Re: caching using ETags to vary the content)

2008-11-04 Thread Miles
Ryan Tomayko wrote: > On 11/4/08 12:51 PM, Miles wrote: >> I know varnish doesn't do If-None-Match, but I don't think that is a >> problem in this scheme. > > I'm curious to understand why Varnish doesn't do validation / conditional GET. > Has If-Modified-Since/If-None-Match support been considere

Conditional GET (was Re: caching using ETags to vary the content)

2008-11-04 Thread Ryan Tomayko
On 11/4/08 12:51 PM, Miles wrote: > I know varnish doesn't do If-None-Match, but I don't think that is a > problem in this scheme. I'm curious to understand why Varnish doesn't do validation / conditional GET. Has If-Modified-Since/If-None-Match support been considered and rejected on merit or is