On Apr 7, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Jon Drukman wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam >> Quigley writ >> es: >>> ...just thought I'd point out another seemingly-nifty thing the >>> Squid >>> folks are working on: >>> >>> http://www.mnot.net/cache_channels/ >>> and >>> http://www.mnot.net/blog/2008/01/04/cache_channels >> >> Interesting to see what hoops they try to jump through these days... >> > > I just got through working at Yahoo and they have valid reasons to > want > all these behaviors. The thing I didn't like about the cache channel > implementation is it involves squid polling an RSS feed every few > seconds to determine which bits of the cache to invalidate. > > I'm looking at launching a small site for a client and the > stale-while-revalidate/stale-on-error functionality is fairly > critical. > I want to go with varnish, though. Front end cache server in India, > pulling content from the USA... lots of potential for slow/dead > connections back to the origin, so it would be great if Varnish would > serve stale content in this eventuality. > > -jsd-
+1 on stale-while-revalidate. I found this one to be real handy. Ric _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
