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 considered and rejected on > merit or is it something that could theoretically be accepted into the > project? Has it just not received any real interest? > > Personally, I'd love to see support for conditional GET as this can > significantly reduce backend resource use when the backend generates cache > validators upfront and 304's without generating the full response. > > Ryan
AFAIK varnish does do if-modified-since, just not if-none-match Miles _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
