-------- In message <[email protected]>, Geoffrey Simmons wr ites:
>That may indeed be unusual, but I see that a sad commentary on the >state of web developers' knowledge about caching and HTTP. Not as >somebody's peculiar requirement. Oh, man, if you think that is a sad commentary, wait till I get started... >It would strike me as rather odd if a caching proxy has to treat >it as a special case when backends actually do something the right >way (like always set Cache-Control to determine TTLs). IMO the unusual detail, is that it takes several minutes to fetch the object from the backend, and that people are trying to find a way to mitigate/work around that special case. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/mailman/listinfo/varnish-dev
