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 anyone say whether the lack of validation is due to a conscious >design decision as opposed to something that just hasn't been >implemented due to priority/time/resources? Both, it hasn't been deemed important enough yet for it to happen. >I'd be willing to take a crack at some of this if it's something that >would be considered for inclusion in the project. It's slightly involved, because presently we don't hold on to a reference to the object that we might revalidate, so the change is semi-nasty locking wise. That said, we're happy to receive patches. -- 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-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
