in particular, suppose 5 requestors request the same URL in a span of 10
seconds, where 
a response takes 30min (no timeouts), and is valid for 1hr.  

Is there a way to make the 4 requests following the first wait for the
first request's results?

If its not possible directly with mod_cache, is it possible via filters,
and had anyone done something 
similar?

About the end goal:

we have an xml database that we use as little more than blob storage (we
don't do any element indexing,
etc, just store xml as blobs).  For our purposes, mod_cache sounds like
a smarter way to go,
because rather than db semantics like

select blob B from database
if B = null, 
        get data
        store data as B in database
        continue

we'd have

select B from http://our_apache_with_mod_cache/B
and mod_cache transparently executes
if B = null, 
        get data
        store data as B in database
        continue

The one hang up we have is that some requests can be very expensive -
2hrs to generate, 10mb of data.  We've 
built semantics around our blob db to queue identical requests, but can
we get this free or cheaply from apache +
mod_cache +  special code?

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